Comedia: Art and History (University of Kansas Humanistic Studies) - Hardcover

Blue, William Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820406449 ISBN 13: 9780820406442

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1989

Synopsis

Through readings of plays by six Spanish Golden Age dramatists, Blue examines relations between the work of art and its historical moment. While offering new insights into the plays, Blue tries to bridge what he sees as the two macro-currents of twentieth-century criticism: the archaelogical and the literary interpretive. He brings to bear elements of structuralism, semiotics, reader-response criticism, deconstruction, and new historical approaches on comedia. From the readings, the plays emerge as fields of con- flict on which the artistic, symbolic, and historical-cultural forces converge but do not merge either in the action or in the quick-silver, ambiguous language of the plays.

About this title

About the Author:

William R. Blue is Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. He is the author of The Development of Imagery in Calderon's "Comedias" (1983) and "Comedia": Art and History (1989)

Review:

«...the analyses and arguments are always fresh and stimulating, opening up the texts in important ways.» (Peter W. Evans, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos)

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0820406449
• ISBN 13: 9780820406442
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 212