1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458483903321

Autore

Dabove Juan Pablo

Titolo

Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 / / Juan Pablo Dabove

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

0-8229-7319-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 pages)

Collana

Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas

Disciplina

860.9/98

Soggetti

Latin American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Brigands and robbers in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-369) and index.

Nota di contenuto

El periquillo sarniento : banditry as the non plus ultra -- Facundo : banditry and the state as nomadic war machine -- El chacho : banditry and allegories of legitimation -- O cabelleira : cangaceiros, sacarocracy, and the invention of a national tradition -- El zarco : banditry and foundational allegories for the nation-state -- Criminology : banditry as the wound of history -- Astucia : banditry and insurgent utopia -- Zárate : banditry, nation, and the experience of the limits -- Martín Fierro : banditry and the frontiers of the voice -- Juan Moreira : the gaucho malo as unpopular hero -- Alma gaucha : the gaucho outlaw and the leviathan -- Los bandidos de Ría Frío : banditry, the criminal state, and the critique of Porfirian illusions -- Os sertões : original banditry and the crimes of nations -- La guerra gaucha : bandit and founding father in the epic of the nation-state -- Los de abajo : the feast, the bandit gang, the bola (revolution and its metaphors) -- Cesarismo democrático : banditry and the necessary gendarme (the shadow of the Caudillo I) -- Doña Bárbara : banditry and the illusions of modernity (the shadow of the Caudillo II).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450324603321

Autore

Witkiewicz Stanisław Ignacy <1885-1939., >

Titolo

Country house / / by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ; translated and with an introduction by Daniel Gerould

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Harwood Academic Publishers, , 1997

ISBN

1-135-29990-0

1-280-14983-3

0-203-98611-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 p.)

Collana

Polish theatre archive ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

GerouldDaniel Charles <1928->

Disciplina

891.8/5272

Soggetti

Polish drama

Polish literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: W małym dworku.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES; LIST OF PLATES; CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF STANISLAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ (ALSO KNOWN AS WITKACY); INTRODUCTION; COUNTRY HOUSE; The Characters; ACT ONE; ACT TWO; ACT THREE; APPENDIX; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

Country House, a ''''comedy with corpses,'''' is a wicked subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. Witkacy''s send-up assumes the form of a ghost story full of surprises, in the course of which an entire family of four is gleefully dispatched to the other world. When it was first performed in 1923 in Torun, Country House was judged unsuitable for the general public because it derided moral, social and dramatic convention. Three years later, as directed by the playwright himself in Lwów, the drama proved an