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Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One hundred years of Lorca
Provides students with a clear narrative overview of the period which will enable them to form critical opinions. Introduces students to the historical controversies of the period and communicates the results of recent specialist studies to a student readership in an easily understood manner. An accessible, clearly written account accompanied by useful bibliography, chronology, tables and maps, and written by an author teaching in the field.
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Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One hundred years of Lorca
Provides students with a clear narrative overview of the period which will enable them to form critical opinions. Introduces students to the historical controversies of the period and communicates the results of recent specialist studies to a student readership in an easily understood manner. An accessible, clearly written account accompanied by useful bibliography, chronology, tables and maps, and written by an author teaching in the field.
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Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One hundred years of Lorca

Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One hundred years of Lorca

by Sebastian Doggart
Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One hundred years of Lorca

Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One hundred years of Lorca

by Sebastian Doggart

Overview

Provides students with a clear narrative overview of the period which will enable them to form critical opinions. Introduces students to the historical controversies of the period and communicates the results of recent specialist studies to a student readership in an easily understood manner. An accessible, clearly written account accompanied by useful bibliography, chronology, tables and maps, and written by an author teaching in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780719081828
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 10/01/2009
Series: Durham Modern Languages Series
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sebastian Doggart is a translator and director of Spanish and Latin American plays and organiser of the Newcastle Lorca Fiesta. Michael Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Durham.

Table of Contents

Acknowledegments List of illustrations Federico Garcia Lorca: list of works mentioned in this volume Introduction - Michael Thompson The Lorca Fiesta: celebrating the centenary in Newcastle - Sebastian Doggart Part 1: Reassessing the impact of Lorca's work Lorca's legacy: writing in the institution - Paul Julian Smith Lorca 1919-1929 - Gwynne Edwards Garcia Lorca: after New York - David Johnston 'Poetry that gets up off the page and becomes human': poetic coherence and eccentricity in Lorca's theatre - Michael Thompson Lluis Pasqual's unknown Lorcas - Maria Delgado Lorca, Don Cristobal and the Carnivalesque - Cariad Astles Learning from the Master: Lorca's homage to Picasso - Jacqueline Cockburn Part 2: Creative responses The Death of Lorca - Merryn Williams The night journey - John Clifford Ode to Federico Gacia Lorca by Pablo Neruda, translated by Sebastian Doggart Notes on Voyage to the Moon - Frederic Amat Irish ReLorcations - Colin Teevan Looking for Lorca: a legacy in the Americas - Caridad Svich Director's panel discussion - Alison Andrews, Hayley Carmichael, John Clifford, Sebastian Doggart, Paul Hunter, David Johnston, Alan Lyddiard Part 3: Translating Lorca 'Combined tactics' in translating Lorca - Nicholas Round Translators' panel discussion: John Clifford, John Edmunds, Gwynne Edwards, David Johnston, Nicholas Round, Colin Teevan, Merryn Williams 'Sixteen Wounds of Love': translations of 'Llagas de amor' by John Clifford, Candida Clark, Sebastian Doggart, John Edmunds, Gwynne Edwards, James Flint, Paula Guarderas, Brendan Kennelly, John Kerr, Caridad Svich, Colin Teevan, Mark Westcott, Merryn Williams The Maiden, the Sailor and the Student, translated by Sebastian Doggart
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