Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One hundred years of Lorca (Durham Modern Languages Series) - Softcover

Book 12 of 15: Durham Modern Languages Series

Doggart, Sebastian

 
9780719081828: Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One hundred years of Lorca (Durham Modern Languages Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719081823 ISBN 13: 9780719081828
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Provides students with a clear narrative overview of the period which will enable them to form critical opinions. Introduces students to the historical controversies of the period and communicates the results of recent specialist studies to a student readership in an easily understood manner. An accessible, clearly written account accompanied by useful bibliography, chronology, tables and maps, and written by an author teaching in the field.

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About the Author

Sebastian Doggart is a translator and director of Spanish and Latin American plays and organiser of the Newcastle Lorca Fiesta. Michael Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Durham.

From the Back Cover

This volume celebrates the life and work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist. The contributors are a stimulating blend of academics, poets and theatre professionals, all responding in a variety of ways to the creative challenges of Lorca's legacy. Alan Lyddiard and other directors discuss staging Lorca's plays. The celebrated artist and stage designer Frederic Amat talks about his filming of Lorca's surrealist screenplay 'Voyage to the Moon'. Professor Paul Julian Smith of University of Cambridge and other academic specialists discuss the continuing vitality of Lorca's poetry, theatre and paintings. Experienced translators talk about the problems and opportunities in translating Lorca's poems and plays, and take up the creative challenge of producing adaptations of a single sonnet, 'Wounds of Love'. There is also a translation of an ode to Lorca by Pablo Neruda and contributions by leading poets Brendan Kennelly, Merryn Williams and John Clifford.

From the Inside Flap

This volume celebrates the life and work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist. The contributors are a stimulating blend of academics, poets and theatre professionals, all responding in a variety of ways to the creative challenges of Lorca's legacy. Alan Lyddiard and other directors discuss staging Lorca's plays. The celebrated artist and stage designer Frederic Amat talks about his filming of Lorca's surrealist screenplay 'Voyage to the Moon'. Professor Paul Julian Smith of University of Cambridge and other academic specialists discuss the continuing vitality of Lorca's poetry, theatre and paintings. Experienced translators talk about the problems and opportunities in translating Lorca's poems and plays, and take up the creative challenge of producing adaptations of a single sonnet, 'Wounds of Love'. There is also a translation of an ode to Lorca by Pablo Neruda and contributions by leading poets Brendan Kennelly, Merryn Williams and John Clifford.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0719081823
ISBN 13 
9780719081828
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
280

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