| Description |
208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: gender, identity, and representation in Spain's Golden Age / Anita K. Stoll and Dawn L. Smith -- Marriage and subversion in comedia endings: problems in art and society / Catherine Connor (Swietlicki) -- Going to extremes: Barthes, Lacan, and Cervantes' La gran sultana / Christopher B. Weimer -- Labyrinthine questions: gender ambivalence and its mythological antecedents in Lope's El laberinto de Creta ["The Cretan labyrinth"] and La prueba de los ingenios ["Trial by wits"] / Louise Fothergill-Payne -- Cross-dressing in Tirso's El amor médico [Love, the doctor] and El Aquiles [Achilles] / Anita K. Stoll -- Performativity and sexual identity in Calderón's Las manos blancas no ofenden (White hands don't offend) / Matthew D. Stroud -- You can't always get what you want: gender, voice, and identity in women-authored comedias / Catherine Larson -- The absence of desire in Leonor de la Cueva's La firmeza en la ausencia [Loyalty in absence] / Teresa S. Soufas -- Fashioning feminine wit in María de Zayas, Ana Caro, and Leonor de la Cueva / Sharon D. Voros -- María de Zayas's wounded women: a semiotics of violence / Yvonne Jehenson and Marcia L. Welles. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
"In 1991 The Perception of Women in Spanish Theater of the Golden Age provided a forum for a group of Hispanists concerned with correcting the failure to acknowledge the place of women in Golden Age Spain. This new collection of essays reflects the continuing interest in the topic and provides a new historical focus on literature and culture together."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
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Literature and society -- Spain.
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Literature and society. |
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Spain. |
| Added Author |
Stoll, Anita K.
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Smith, Dawn L.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Gender, identity, and representation in Spain's Golden Age. Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)607453280 |
| ISBN |
0838754252 alkaline paper |
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9780838754252 alkaline paper |
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