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Plot Twists and Critical Turns: Queer Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Theater
Matthew D. Stroud
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Description for Plot Twists and Critical Turns: Queer Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Theater
hardcover. Plot Twists and Critical Turns provides a reconsideration of a variety of works of seventeenth-century Spanish theater, both standards and those that are less well-known, from perspectives grounded in recent work in queer studies. Num Pages: 267 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 581.
Plot Twists and Critical Turns provides a reconsideration of a variety of works of seventeenth-century Spanish theater, both standards and those that are less well-known, from perspectives grounded in recent work in queer studies. Basing his readings on the ideas of such gender theorists as Judith Butlre, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Leo Bersani, Stroud advances the recent trend against closure in comedia criticism by showing that early modern Spanish theater, even given the limitations placed upon it by censorship, public tastes, and its own conventional precepts, is shot through with gaps and spaces that allow one to perceive at least ... Read more
Plot Twists and Critical Turns provides a reconsideration of a variety of works of seventeenth-century Spanish theater, both standards and those that are less well-known, from perspectives grounded in recent work in queer studies. Basing his readings on the ideas of such gender theorists as Judith Butlre, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Leo Bersani, Stroud advances the recent trend against closure in comedia criticism by showing that early modern Spanish theater, even given the limitations placed upon it by censorship, public tastes, and its own conventional precepts, is shot through with gaps and spaces that allow one to perceive at least ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
Number of Pages
267
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482737
SKU
V9781611482737
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About Matthew D. Stroud
Matthew D. Stroud is professor of Spanish at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
Reviews for Plot Twists and Critical Turns: Queer Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Theater
"Perhaps what is most important . . . are the risks that the author has taken in his provocative queer analysis of hitherto considered heterosexual/traditional ideas, concepts, and texts. This risk taking strategy is sure to engender further discussion and research in the future, an extraordinary achievement in and of itself."
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