The Theatre of García Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis
The Theatre of García Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Marañón, Langston Hughes, André Gide, and Lluis Pasqual, enabling us to see his theater in a new light. In addition, the book presents a new psychoanalytic reading of the plays, which returns to Freud's early clinical texts.
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The Theatre of García Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis
The Theatre of García Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Marañón, Langston Hughes, André Gide, and Lluis Pasqual, enabling us to see his theater in a new light. In addition, the book presents a new psychoanalytic reading of the plays, which returns to Freud's early clinical texts.
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The Theatre of García Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis

The Theatre of García Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis

by Paul Julian Smith
The Theatre of García Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis

The Theatre of García Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis

by Paul Julian Smith

Overview

The Theatre of García Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Marañón, Langston Hughes, André Gide, and Lluis Pasqual, enabling us to see his theater in a new light. In addition, the book presents a new psychoanalytic reading of the plays, which returns to Freud's early clinical texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521622929
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 05/28/1998
Series: Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature , #14
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Text, performance, psychoanalysis; 1. Yerma and the doctors: García Lorca, Marañón, and the anxiety of bisexuality; 2. Black Wedding: García Lorca, Langston Hughes, and the translation of introjection; 3. Poet in Paris: Asi que pasen cinco anos (When Five Years Pass), Corydon, and the truth of anamnesis; 4. Garcia Lorca and the socialists: subsidised cinema, Pasqual's public, and the identification of affect; Conclusion; 'Doing Lorca'.
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