Women S Somatic Training In Early Modern Spanish Theater

Author : Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134780730

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Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater by Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen Pdf

Drawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study shows how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role. It provides today's reader not only another perspective to the performance aspect of early modern plays, but also a better understanding of how the woman of the theater succeeded in a highly scrutinized profession. Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen examines examples of comedias from playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Tirso de Molina, and Ana Caro, historical documents, and treatises to demonstrate that the women of the stage transformed their bodies and their social and cultural environment in order to succeed in early modern Spanish theater. Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater is the first full-length, in-depth study of women actors in seventeenth-century Spain. Unique in the field of comedia studies, it approaches the topic from a performance perspective, using somaesthetics as a tool to explain how an artist's lived experiences and emotions unite in the interpretation of art, reconfiguring her "self" via the transformation of habit.

Author : Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134780808

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Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater by Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen Pdf

Drawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study shows how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role. It provides today's reader not only another perspective to the performance aspect of early modern plays, but also a better understanding of how the woman of the theater succeeded in a highly scrutinized profession. Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen examines examples of comedias from playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Tirso de Molina, and Ana Caro, historical documents, and treatises to demonstrate that the women of the stage transformed their bodies and their social and cultural environment in order to succeed in early modern Spanish theater. Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater is the first full-length, in-depth study of women actors in seventeenth-century Spain. Unique in the field of comedia studies, it approaches the topic from a performance perspective, using somaesthetics as a tool to explain how an artist's lived experiences and emotions unite in the interpretation of art, reconfiguring her "self" via the transformation of habit.

Author : Bárbara Mujica
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781648894350

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Staging and Stage Décor: Early Modern Spanish Theater by Bárbara Mujica Pdf

This is the first book on staging and stage décor to focus specifically on early modern Spanish theater, from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The introduction provides an overview of Spanish theater design from the 16th century, with particular attention to the corral theater and Lope de Vega. The scope of the book is vast. Some of the articles deal with early modern stagings, while others deal with contemporary productions. The collection contains articles by an international array of specialists on topics such as scenography and costuming, lighting, and performance space. It also broaches little-studied areas such as the use of alternative performance spaces, most notably prisons. The book provides in-depth analyses of particular archetypes - the melancholiac, the queen, the astrologer - and how they were, and are, staged. The focus on performance and performance space, costuming, set design, lighting, and audience seating make this a truly unique volume. This book is designed for students of Spanish literature and theater, researchers interested in theater history and early modern Spain, as well as theater professionals.

Author : Susan L. Fischer,Frederick A. de Armas
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644530177

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Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain by Susan L. Fischer,Frederick A. de Armas Pdf

Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo, defended certain causes, challenged authority, and broke barriers. Such women did not necessarily engage in masculine pursuits, but often used cultural production and engaged in social subversion to exercise resistance in the home, in the convent, on stage, or at their writing desks. Distributed for the University of Delaware Press

Author : Isabel Jaen,Julien Jacques Simon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190631482

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Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature by Isabel Jaen,Julien Jacques Simon Pdf

Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the cognitive literary studies research that has been taking place within early modern Spanish studies over the last fifteen years. Next, it traces the creation of self in the context of the novel, focusing on Cervantes's Don Quixote in relation to the notions of embodiment and autopoiesis as well as the faculties of memory and imagination as understood in early modernity. It continues to explore the concept of embodiment, showing its relevance to delve into the mechanics of the interaction between actors and audience both in the jongleuresque and the comedia traditions. It then centers on cognitive theories of perception, the psychology of immersion in fictional worlds, and early modern and modern-day notions of intentionality to discuss the role of perceiving and understanding others in performance, Don Quixote, and courtly conduct manuals. The last section focuses on the affective dimension of audience-performer interactions in the theatrical space of the Spanish corrales and how emotion and empathy can inform new approaches to presenting Las Casas's work in the literature classroom. The volume closes with an afterword offering strategies to design a course on mind and literature in early modernity.

Author : Esther Fernández
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855663718

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Tirso de Molina by Esther Fernández Pdf

The first comprehensive study of Tirso de Molina and his work in English Tirso de Molina (c.1583-c.1648) may not have written El Burlador de Sevilla, but the works of this prolific author, one of the three pillars of Golden Age Spanish theatre, are notable for their erudition, complex characters, and wit. Informed by a multidisciplinary critical perspective, this volume sets Tirso's plays and prose in their social, historical, literary, and cultural contexts. Contributors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain offer a state of the art in current scholarship, considering such topics as gender, identity, spatiality, material culture, and creative performativity, among others. The first volume in English to provide a richly detailed overview of Tirso's life and work, Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century grounds the reader in canonical theories while suggesting new approaches, attuned to contemporary interests, to his legacy.

Author : Isabel Jaén,Julien Jacques Simon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351855457

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Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind by Isabel Jaén,Julien Jacques Simon Pdf

This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andrés Laguna, Andrés Velásquez, Marsilio Ficino, and Gómez Pereira. The editors bring together humanists and scientists: literary scholars and doctors whose interdisciplinary research integrates diverse types of sources (philosophical and medical treatises, natural histories, rhetoric manuals, pharmacopoeias, etc.) alongside Cervantes’s works to examine themes and areas including emotion, human development, animal vs. human consciousness, pathologies of the mind, and mind-altering substances. Their chapters trace the cognitive themes and points of inquiry that Cervantes shares with other early modern thinkers, showing how he both echoes and contributes to early modern views of the mind.

Author : Amber L. Griffioen,Marius Backmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031134050

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Pluralizing Philosophy’s Past by Amber L. Griffioen,Marius Backmann Pdf

This collection of 15 accessible essays on neglected philosophical figures and traditions aims to provide readers with concrete access points to less familiar philosophical sources and methods. Showcasing the latest research by both up-and-coming and well-established scholars, each essay focuses on a particular topic relevant to the pluralization of the history of philosophy and offers advice for incorporating the figure, theme, or approach into the philosophy classroom.

Author : Lisa Skogh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351552523

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Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts by Lisa Skogh Pdf

As queen consort and dowager, Hedwig Eleonora (1636?1715) held a unique position in Sweden for more than half a century. As the dominant collector and patron of art and architecture in the realm, she left a strong mark on Swedish court culture. Her dynastic network among the Northern European courts was extensive, and this helped to make Sweden a major cultural center in Northern Europe in the later seventeenth century. This book represents the first major scholarly publication on the full range of Hedwig Eleonora?s endeavours, from the financing of her court to her place within a larger princely network, to her engagements with various cultural pursuits, to her public image. As the contributors show, despite her high profile, political position, and conspicuous patronage, Hedwig Eleonora experienced little of the animosity directed at many other foreign queens and regents, such as the Medici in France and Henrietta Maria in England. In this way, she provides a model for a different and more successful way of negotiating the difficulties of joining a foreign court; the analysis of her circumstances thus adds a substantial dimension to the study of early modern queenship. Presenting much new scholarship, this volume highlights one extremely significant early modern woman and her imprint on Northern European history, and fosters international awareness of the importance of early modern Scandinavia for European cultural history.

Author : Juan Carlos González Espitia
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813943169

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Sifilografía by Juan Carlos González Espitia Pdf

Syphilis was a prevalent affliction in the era of the Americas’ colonization, creating widespread anxiety that is indicated in the period’s literature across numerous fields. Reflecting Spaniards’ political prejudices of the period, it was alternately labeled "mal francés" or "el mal de las Indias." Sifilografía offers a cultural history that traces syphilis and its consequences in the transatlantic Spanish-speaking world throughout the long eighteenth century. Juan Carlos González Espitia charts interrelated literary, artistic, medical, and governmental discourses, exploring how fears of the disease and the search for its cure mobilized a transoceanic dialogue that forms an underside of Enlightenment narratives of progress. Through a narrative revealing the transformation and retooling of ideas related to syphilis as a bodily contagion, González Espitia demonstrates the Spanish-speaking world’s crucial relevance to a global understanding of the period in the context of current reassessments of Enlightenment thought. Broad in its scope, the book incorporates an extensive corpus of medical treatises, literary essays, poems, novels, art, and governmental documents. The rich overlapping matrix of authors and texts broached subvert the idea of a homogeneous interpretation of syphilis and contributes to the rediscovery of the wide-ranging historical, cultural, and philosophical impact of this disease in the Spanish-speaking world. Sifilografía seeks to open a productive dialogue with other area studies about the disparate meanings of science and Enlightenment.

Author : Elizabeth Chesney Zegura
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315394336

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Marguerite de Navarre's Shifting Gaze by Elizabeth Chesney Zegura Pdf

Reading between the lines: political allegory and metonymy in the Heptaméron -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Index

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UOM:39015079880640

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Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards by Anonim Pdf

Theses on any subject submitted by the academic libraries in the UK and Ireland.

Author : Rose Arny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015054037059

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Forthcoming Books by Rose Arny Pdf

Author : Isabel Jaén,Julien Jacques Simon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190256555

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Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature by Isabel Jaén,Julien Jacques Simon Pdf

Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the cognitive literary studies research that has been taking place within early modern Spanish studies over the last fifteen years. Next, it traces the creation of self in the context of the novel, focusing on Cervantes's Don Quixote in relation to the notions of embodiment and autopoiesis as well as the faculties of memory and imagination as understood in early modernity. It continues to explore the concept of embodiment, showing its relevance to delve into the mechanics of the interaction between actors and audience both in the jongleuresque and the comedia traditions. It then centers on cognitive theories of perception, the psychology of immersion in fictional worlds, and early modern and modern-day notions of intentionality to discuss the role of perceiving and understanding others in performance, Don Quixote, and courtly conduct manuals. The last section focuses on the affective dimension of audience-performer interactions in the theatrical space of the Spanish corrales and how emotion and empathy can inform new approaches to presenting Las Casas's work in the literature classroom. The volume closes with an afterword offering strategies to design a course on mind and literature in early modernity.

Author : University of California, Santa Cruz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106015401281

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General Catalog -- University of California, Santa Cruz by University of California, Santa Cruz Pdf