Don Juan: His Own Version

Don Juan: His Own Version

Author: Peter Handke

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2010-02-15

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 1429936347

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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history's most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence Don Juan's story—"his own version"—is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator, a failed innkeeper and chef, into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On each day of the week that follows, Don Juan describes the adventures he experienced on that same day a week earlier. The adventures are erotic, but Handke's Don Juan is more pursued than pursuer. What makes his accounts riveting are the remarkable evocations of places and people, and the nature of his narration. Don Juan: His Own Version is, above all, a book about storytelling and its ability to burst the ordinary boundaries of time and space. In this brief and wry volume, Peter Handke conjures images and depicts the subtleties of human interaction with an unforgettable vividness. Along the way, he offers a sharp commentary on many features of contemporary life.


Shabono

Shabono

Author: Florinda Donner

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1992-05-08

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0062502425

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'Shabono' – the name of the hamlets of palm-thatched dwellings where the Yanomama Indians of Venezuela and southern Brazil live – recounts the vivid and unforgettable experience of anthropologist Florinda Donner's time with an indigenous tr


Don Juan East/West

Don Juan East/West

Author: Takayuki Yokota-Murakami

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1998-07-10

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1438424655

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From its early proponents via Rene Etiemble and Claudio Guillen to Jonathan Culler, comparative literature has always been viewed, with much hope, as a promising and effective means to break through the chauvinism of national literature studies and to promote international understanding. Don Juan East/West challenges this notion. Taking the comparison of the Western Don Juan and Eastern (mainly Japanese) "Don Juan" as a point of reference, the author convincingly argues that comparative literature has been a means of subsuming non-Western cultural tenets under the rubric of the Western paradigm. Comparativism has been used to redefine Japanese "libertines" so that they conform to the sexual ideology that has substantiated Don Juanism. To demonstrate this, the author combines genealogical and semiotic approaches and treats topics as varied as a reexamination of the theories of Saussure, Whorf, Searle, and Derrida; a historical description of the introduction of Western romantic love and sexological discourse to modern Japan; the conceptual problems foregrounding Don Juanism and its relationship to homosexuality; an analysis of sexual ideologies through examples taken from the Japanese translation of Russian literature; and the relevance of politics (Taisho democracy, the Marshall Plan, the reemergence of Japanese militarism, etc.) to comparative scholarship.


Brigitte Jacques and Louis Jouvet's 'Elvira' and Moliere's 'Don Juan'

Brigitte Jacques and Louis Jouvet's 'Elvira' and Moliere's 'Don Juan'

Author: Brigitte Jaques

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780761824756

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"Banned after its creation in 1665 because of the threat that it posed to conventional beliefs and ways, Don Juan was not appreciated until the middle of the twentieth century. Since then, its extraordinary theatricality and its daring, and very modern, discussion of philosophical and social matters has made it Moliere's most performed and most studied work in France and in continental Europe generally. In English-speaking countries, however, it is still relatively unknown.".


Don Juan in Hell

Don Juan in Hell

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 0486159515

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This dream episode from Man and Superman forms a play within the play, consisting of a dramatic reading in which the Devil himself comments on heaven and hell, good and evil, and human purpose.


Molière: Don Juan

Molière: Don Juan

Author: David Whitton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-04-27

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780521478670

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This book examines how Molière's Don Juan has been interpreted in performance by different directors and in a variety of cultural and social contexts.


Don Juan

Don Juan

Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron

Publisher:

Published: 1837

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13:

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The Poems of Lord Byron - Don Juan

The Poems of Lord Byron - Don Juan

Author: Jane Stabler

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-07

Total Pages: 1280

ISBN-13: 1040270557

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Byron’s Don Juan is one of the greatest poems in the English language. Byron’s friends initially agreed that ‘it will be impossible to publish this’. Byron prevailed, however, and the first two cantos were issued anonymously after much editorial revision. Even in its revised form, Don Juan was perceived as a radical attack on establishment values; the poem has remained a beacon for freedom of speech and retains its power to shock. Since it was published in 1819–24, all printed editions of the poem have used the text prepared by Byron’s publishers, John Murray and John Hunt. This is the first new text of the poem to be printed in two hundred years. The Longman edition is based on a comprehensive line-by-line analysis of the manuscripts, so the text of the poem follows Byron’s own voice, pace and pauses, rather than the grammatical punctuation and more cautious word choice inserted by his nineteenth-century editors. The Longman Don Juan has been annotated afresh, allowing readers to see where Byron left open the choice of words or rhymes, and demonstrating the extraordinary breadth and depth of his literary allusions, topical and cultural references, and socially coded jokes. Textual annotation includes reception history, extensive bibliographies and a detailed chronology, situating Don Juan in the literary, scientific, dramatic, political, musical and social life of the early nineteenth century. A detailed index to the poem and annotation provides an unparalleled resource for students and scholars.


Aspects of Byron's Don Juan

Aspects of Byron's Don Juan

Author: Peter Cochran

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-10-16

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1443868981

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Aspects of Byron’s Don Juan is, in part, a proceedings volume from the 2012 conference held by the Newstead Byron Society at Nottingham Trent University. Speakers represented in the book include Malcolm Kelsall, Peter Cochran, Diego Saglia and Itsuyo Higashinaka. Topics range from the politics of Don Juan, and its treatment of women, to its comic rhymes. One section is devoted to the poem’s importance in the literatures of Spain and Russia, another to the vast catalogue of Byron’s prose sources (from cannibalism to cookery books), and a final section to the important role played by Mary Shelley in copying most of the poem for the printer. The editor’s introduction describes the enormous literary tradition of which Don Juan forms a vital continuation, from Pulci’s Morgante Maggiore, via Rabelais, Cervantes, and Montaigne, to the novelists Sterne, Smollett and Fielding, all of whom Byron adored. Another chapter concerns the differing ways in which Don Juan has been treated by other artists, from Tirso de Molina, via E. T. A. Hoffman, to Johnny Depp.