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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797625203321

Titolo

Connecting past and present : exploring the influence of the Spanish Golden Age in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / / edited by Aaron M. Kahn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8391-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

860.9006

Soggetti

Spanish literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Spanish literature - 21st century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Connecting past and present / Aaron M. Kahn -- The Man of La Mancha in miniature: Don Quijote in twenty-first century Spanish microfiction / Tyler Fisher -- The Quixotic detective: Golden Age intertexts in Eduardo Mendoza's crime fiction / Stacey Triplette -- On black-gloved fists and pentagonal sieges: Cervantes's Numancia and the fight against imperialism in Cronicas romanas (1968) by Alfonso Sastre / Aaron M. Kahn -- The sins of the father are redeemed by the son (and daughter): determinism and moral autonomy in Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares / Brian Brewer -- Witnessing crisis in contemporary and Golden Age Spain / Elvira Vilches -- Mellifluent influence: Octavas reales in translation in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Golden Age season / Kathleen Jeffs -- A twenty-first century Auto Sacramental?: Thomas Hürlimann's Das Einsiedler Welttheater (2007) and Calderón's El gran teatro del mundo / Stephen Boyd -- A silly little thing called love: foolishness, farce, and fancy in Manuel Iborra's La dama boba (2006) / Oliver Noble Wood.

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume, experts on the Spanish Golden Age from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States offer analyses of contemporary works that have been influenced by the classics from the sixteenth and



seventeenth centuries. Part of the formation of a sense of national identity, always a problematic concept in Spain, is founded in the recognition and appreciation of what has come beforehand, and no other era in the history of Spanish literature and drama represents the talent and fascination that Spaniards and non-Spaniards alike possess with the artistic legacy of this country. In order