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Woman Saint In Spanish Golden
Christopher D. Gascon
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Description for Woman Saint In Spanish Golden
Hardback. Num Pages: 203 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 485.
The Woman Saint in the Spanish Golden Age Drama examines the various ways in which male and female dramatists present the figure of the ascetic woman in seventeenth-century Spanish theater. Playwrights depict her not only as the solitary initiate of a rite of passage, struggling to purify herself to approach the divine, but they also focus on the clash between ascetic practice and the desire of family, suitors, and patriarchal society. She may appear as both a forbidden fruit and Christ figure who is ultimately persecuted, scapegoated, and executed by a fearful society. Some writers present her as a representative ... Read more
The Woman Saint in the Spanish Golden Age Drama examines the various ways in which male and female dramatists present the figure of the ascetic woman in seventeenth-century Spanish theater. Playwrights depict her not only as the solitary initiate of a rite of passage, struggling to purify herself to approach the divine, but they also focus on the clash between ascetic practice and the desire of family, suitors, and patriarchal society. She may appear as both a forbidden fruit and Christ figure who is ultimately persecuted, scapegoated, and executed by a fearful society. Some writers present her as a representative ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
Number of Pages
203
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482553
SKU
V9781611482553
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About Christopher D. Gascon
Christopher D. Gascón is assistant professor of Spanish at State University of New York, Cortland.
Reviews for Woman Saint In Spanish Golden
'Esta obra no solo contribuye al estudio de la literatura de mujeres del Siglo de Oro, sino que a traves de la implementacion de marcos teoricos provenientes de diferentes disciplinas y corrientes analiticas, ofrece un estudio que se centratanto en el analisis del texto en si como en el modo en que el discurso literario entra en interseccion con la ... Read more