Don Juan and the Point of Honor
Don Juan and the Point of Honor

Author: James Mandrell

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780271040721

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In Don Juan and the Point of Honor, James Mandrell undertakes a systematic examination of the many questions surrounding the legendary character. What emerges is a view of Don Juan as a positive social force in patriarchal society and culture. Mandrell shows that Don Juan should not be treated as an innocent or outmoded cultural artifact.

El burlador de Sevilla
El burlador de Sevilla

Author: Tirso de Molina

Publisher:

Published: 2008-11-15

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9788424630225

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Don Juan Tenorio es un noble sevillano de inicios del siglo XVII. Su carácter arrogante le lleva al atropello y al agravio de honores femeninos, de amistades, de los usos sociales de la época y hasta de la propia llamada del más allá. El burlador de Sevilla, obra fundamental en el teatro barroco, nos acerca, desde un tono de comedia, a elementos complejos de la condición humana en relación con el arte de la seducción, el sentimiento amoroso y la vanidad. Esta edición contiene además una amplia guía de lectura, con un análisis del contexto de la obra y del autor, así como un análisis del teatro del barroco. Incluye también una amplia bibliografía y una variada propuesta de ejercicios.

Burlador de Sevilla Y El Convidado de Piedra
Burlador de Sevilla Y El Convidado de Piedra

Author: Tirso (de Molina)

Publisher: Hispanic Literature

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0856683019

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Tirso de Molina was, with Lope de Vega and Calderon, one of the great dramatists of 17th century Spain, which produced a theatre as vital rich and as varied as its Elizabethan counterpart. The Trickster of Seville is thoroughly representative of the drama of Spain's Golden Age: a drama of fast-moving action which set its face against classical precepts, broke the unities of time and place, cheerfully mixed the serious and the comic, combined main and sub-plots, and cultivated Spanish subjects and Spanish characters. In this respect Tirso's Don Juan is of course, the most famous character in the drama of the Golden Age, as well as the first of a long line which extends through Mozart and Moliere to the 20th century.

Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Related Subjects
Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Related Subjects

Author: James A. Parr

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781575910840

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This is a study of major figures, texts, and periods in Spanish literature prior to 1700. It applies - and interrogates - modern critical theory. Contributing to its cohesiveness are the time span addressed (1330-1630) and the emphasis throughout on literary tradition and critical approaches. It is inspired partly by Ramiro de Maeztu's 1926 monograph, Don Quixote, Don Juan y la Celestina, devoted to the three characters Maeztu felt to be the most important in the Spanish literary canon. include Celestina. The volume is divided into three parts. The first of these deals with Don Quixote, the second centers around the Don Juan figure created by Tirso de Molina, while the third ventures farther back in time to treat the major texts of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, along with the problematic period concepts Renaissance and Baroque. James A. Parr is Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Riverside.

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.

Must There be Scapegoats?
Must There be Scapegoats?

Author: Raymund Schwager

Publisher: Gracewing Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780852445099

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"Schwager reverses three millennia of conventional understanding of the Bible as he argues that the God of the Old Testament is not a God of violence; that Jesus sacrifice is not an act of appeasement of the Father; and that the suffering and death of an infinite victim is not compensation for an infinite offence against God."-- Back cover.

A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays
A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays

Author: David Bentley Hart

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2016-06-15

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 146744524X

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Incisive essays from a master wordsmith Why has Don Juan become so passé of late? What’s the trouble with Ayn Rand? How did the Doge of Venice come to venerate the counterfeit remains of Siddhartha Gautama? Why does the Bentley family’s collection of ancestral relics include a bronzed human thumb? And what, exactly, is the story behind Great Uncle Aloysius, who was born a Quaker but died a pagan? This collection of occasional essays brings us David Bentley Hart at his finest: startlingly clear and deliciously abstruse, coolly wise and burningly witty, fresh and timeless, mystical and concrete — often all at once. Hart’s incisive blend of philosophy, moral theology, and cultural criticism, together with his flair for both the well-told story and the well-turned phrase, is sure to delight.