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Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750
In this groundbreaking study, Diana Berruezo-Sánchez recovers key chapters in the history of Afro-Iberian diasporas by exploring the literary contributions and life experiences of black African communities and individuals in early modern Spain. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, international trade involving chattel slavery led to significant populations of enslaved, free(d), and half-manumitted black African women, men, and children in the Iberian Peninsula. These demographic changes transformed Spain's urban and social landscapes. In exploring Spain's role in the transatlantic slave trade and its effects on cultural forms of the period, Berruezo-Sánchez examines a broad rang...
A Crimson Line to the Bright Horizon
Fereshte Teyfouri's writings focussing on Sufi thought and mystical concepts are presented with the original Persian texts and an English translation to introduce her poignant view of existence to a wider audience. The poetic miniatures muse on existentialist concepts, stemming from the perspective of her life in Iran and later Germany - and a visceral sense of not belonging - but with the dilemmas of alienation and displacement counterbalanced by the sentiments being expressed using Sufi terms, but sometimes from the standpoint of inanimate objects: tar, blotting paper, the cleansing nature of an eraser. Fereshte Teyfouri, lecturer in Persian at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster, Persian author and editor, translator for the German courts. Natalie H. Shokoohy (translator) architectural historian.
The Refracted Muse
Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence—not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well. While Spain is often thought to have taken little notice of the Scientific Revolution, García Santo-Tomás tells a different story, one that reveals Golden Age Spanish literature to be in close dialogue with the New Science. Drawing on the work of writers such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Quevedo, he helps us trace the influence of science and discovery on the rapidly developing and highly playful genre of the novel. Indeed, García Santo-Tomás makes a strong case that the rise of the novel cannot be fully understood without taking into account its relationship to the scientific discoveries of the period.
The Literary Side of the Armada
The Anglo-Spanish War in the 16th century reached its climax in August 1588, when King Philip’s Felicissima Armada challenged Queen Elizabeth’s fleet in the waters of the Channel. If the outcome of the war has been much commented on and debated throughout the centuries, the impact the war had on literature has been neglected for a long time. This book presents to scholars, students and readers how the Armada was dealt with in the literature of the countries involved in the conflict. It offers a view on the Armada from both Spanish and English voices: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and Drayton are flanked by Góngora, Cervantes and Lope de Vega.
«Que todo lo feo es malo / y bueno todo lo Hermoso»
La estética feísta no suele relacionarse con la literatura dramática no burlesca. La comedia de Lope de Vega sigue considerándose en muchos estudios como un oasis en el que la fealdad y la realidad más mundana desaparecen en pos de una idealización impregnada por el éxito del amor, los escenarios palaciegos o el carácter festivo. Sin embargo, la poética teatral de Lope de Vega contempla también la presencia de otros universos sociales, como el de los bandoleros, los rústicos, los corsarios, los gitanos, las alcahuetas, las busconas, sin rehuir las representaciones de violencia y de sexualidad grotesca. El presente volumen se enfrenta a la necesidad de repensar la obra lopesca en función de los elementos propios de la estética de lo feo.
El pasado ajeno
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La comedia española en la imprenta catalana
Este libro analiza la constante presencia de la comedia española en la imprenta catalana, desde el primer momento de su existencia hasta nuestros días. Esta actividad pone de manifiesto los profundos cambios en los hábitos lectores que se produjeron desde principios del siglo XVII.
Teatro
Más de cuatrocientos años después, el teatro del príncipe de las letras hispánicas sigue en proceso de revalorización. Si bien él mismo reconoce su doloroso fracaso, no deja su dramaturgia de ser representativa de las corrientes dramáticas de su tiempo. Es, además, una práctica teatral que ha encontrado en los siglos XX y XXI importantes adalides escénicos en La Barraca lorquiana en tiempos de la República, en Jean Louis Barrault, María Teresa León y Rafael Alberti en plena Guerra Civil, en José Tamayo, Modesto Higueras y Miguel Narros dentro de España, o en Álvaro Custodio y Alberto Castilla en la España exiliada. Ya en tiempos más cercanos ha sido avalado por la Royal Sh...
El último Lope (1618-1635) y la escena
El viejo Lope culmina en los últimos años de su vida su dilatada trayectoria dramática. Ensaya una nueva comicidad que se sustenta sobre la arquitectura dramática, sobre los juegos de entradas y salidas, sobre la confusión de identidades… Es también el momento en que se acendra el sentido trágico que siempre estuvo presente en su producción.
Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain
Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain features essays by leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and the history of science, exploring the relationship between technical innovations and theatrical events that incorporated scientific content into dramatic productions. Focusing on Spanish dramas between 1500 and 1700, through the birth and development of its playhouses and coliseums and the phenomenal success of its major writers, this collection addresses a unique phenomenon through the most popular, versatile, and generous medium of the time. The contributors tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre could be used to deploy scientific knowledge. While Science on Stage contributes to cultural and performance studies it also engages with issues of censorship, the effect of the Spanish Inquisition on the circulation of ideas, and the influence of the Eastern traditions in Spain.
