Immature Playboys and Predatory Tricksters: Studies in the Sources, Scope and Reach of Don Juan

Immature Playboys and Predatory Tricksters: Studies in the Sources, Scope and Reach of Don Juan

  • Author: García de la Rasilla, Carmen; Abril Sánchez, Jorge
  • Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta – Hispanic Monographs
  • ISBN: 9781588713452
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781588713636
  • Place of publication:  Newark , United States
  • Year of publication: 2020
  • Pages: 301
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: Imagining Don Juan. Edward H. Friedman
  • Introduction. Carmen García de la Rasilla and Jorge Abril Sánchez
  • Section One. The Authorship of El burlador de Sevilla
    • El burlador de Sevilla, El condenado por desconfiado and El infanzón de Illescas: Three Works Misattributed to Tirso de Molina. Alfredo Rodríguez López Vázquez
  • Section Two. The Cosmological, Geographical and Spiritual Spaces of The Trickster Of Seville
    • Constructing Don Juan’s World: Women and the Cosmos in El burlador de Sevilla. Frederick A. De Armas
    • The Fictionalization of the Space in El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra. Antonio Guijarro Donadiós
  • Section Three. Don Juan’s Principles: Perversion, Hedonism and Ludic Theatricality
    • Don Juan Tenorio, Touch, Pygmalion: Perverse Ecstasy and Ecstatic Perversion. Charles Victor Ganelin
    • The Late Don Juan Tenorio: Valle-Inclán Beyond the Pleasure Principle. James Mandrell
    • José Zorrilla’s Don Juan and His Games. Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros
  • Section Four. The Classic Playboy Under the Feminist Gaze
    • When Women Say No: Don Juan and Language of Protest. Margaret E. Boyle
    • Taking Back the Night: El burlador de Sevilla and Twenty-First Century Feminisms. Robert Bayliss
  • Section Five. Don Juan’s Protean Legacy
    • The Myth of Don Juan from a Foucauldian Perspective: Relations of Power during the Baroque and the Romantic Periods. Daniel Lorca
    • A Don Juan’s Afterlife:The Ethics and Aesthetics of (Failed) Seduction in Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet. Fernando Beleza
    • Portrait of Giovanni as an English Anti-hero. Vicente Pérez De León
    • From Don Juan to Dracula and Beyond: A Gothic Metamorphosis. Fernando González de León
  • Section Six. Don Juan’s Reach, Painted and Filmed
    • Don Juan Interpreted by Great Painters. Carmen García de la Rasilla
    • Cosmopolitan Don Juan, Mauricio Garcés and the Myth of the Modern Mexican Dandy. Daniel Chávez
  • Contributors
  • Appendix

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