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Agustín Gómez-Arcos, Sharon G. Feldman Jan 2002

Agustín Gómez-Arcos, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Agustín Gómez-Arcos, a bilingual dramatist and novelist, was born in 1933 in the village of Enix (Almeria). The origins of his theater can be traced to his childhood experiences, in which he witnessed firsthand the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and the dark clouds of oppression of the Francoist regime, images that left indelible imprints on his literature and his life. Although in the future he would leave behind both native country and language, his memories of the Civil War and postwar period would continue to surface in his plays.

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El Teatro Español En El Fesitval Iberoamericano De Teatro (Fit) De Cádiz: La Sociedad En Una Bañera, Polly J. Hodge Jan 1999

El Teatro Español En El Fesitval Iberoamericano De Teatro (Fit) De Cádiz: La Sociedad En Una Bañera, Polly J. Hodge

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research

"Desde 1985 el Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro (FIT) tiene su cita anual en Cádiz y se enorgullece de ofrecer muestras de teatro de España y de muchos países latinoamericanos que ejemplifican lo último en las técnicas escénicas contemporáneas. Según el Boletín Informativo Municipal de 1996, el festival ofrece lo mejor de las Artes Escénicas de Espaiia e Iberoamérica y "apuesta por la calidad de los espectáculos frente a la cantidad de los mismos" (9). Lo que en general se destaca en estas obras es su abandono del aspecto verbal como el medio de comunicación principal. La imagen visual, gestos, ritmos …

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Agustín Gómez-Arcos En El Ocaso Del Exilio: Los Primeros Años Parisinos, Sharon G. Feldman Jan 1999

Agustín Gómez-Arcos En El Ocaso Del Exilio: Los Primeros Años Parisinos, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Agustín Gómez-Arcos llego a Francia en 1968, y sus primeros años de residencia en Paris representan un intervalo de transición con respecto a su trayectoria como escritor. Es una época de continuidad, tanto como de ruptura, en la cual las arduas memorias de un pasado español se funden con nuevos comienzos. Mientras que los temas que marcaron sus obras anteriores -la política, la religión, el erotismo y la lengua siguen habitando su escritura exílica, a la vez, su salida de España lógicamente induce una serie de transformaciones temáticas y estilísticas que más adelante pasaran a su obra novelística. En el …

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Performance Theory: «Desde Lo Político A Lo Espectacular: El Caso De Els Joglars», Sharon G. Feldman Jan 1999

Performance Theory: «Desde Lo Político A Lo Espectacular: El Caso De Els Joglars», Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Durante las últimas décadas, en Estados Unidos, España y otras partes del mundo, una de las cuestiones que ha suscitado un mayor grado de reflexión en el mundo teatral, por parte de los artistas tanto como de los teóricos, es la interrogación crítica y radical sobre la relación entre texto dramático y representación. La palabra escrita, tradicionalmente proveniente del dramaturgo e históricamente considerada el locus de autoridad en el teatro, empezó a perder su potencia prescriptiva con respecto al montaje artístico o «puesta en escena». Incluso, en algunas ocasiones, el espectáculo teatral alcanzó un nivel de independencia según el cual …

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[Introduction To] Allegories Of Dissent: The Theater Of Agustín Gómez-Arcos, Sharon G. Feldman Jan 1998

[Introduction To] Allegories Of Dissent: The Theater Of Agustín Gómez-Arcos, Sharon G. Feldman

Bookshelf

This book is a case study of the relationship between art and oppression. It is the first book devoted to Gomez-Arcos, a member of a "lost" generation of Spanish dramatists who were silenced during the Franco era. It addresses three crucial issues that define both his literature and his life: censorship, exile, and bilingualism.

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Sanctifying The Scatological And Debasing The Divine: Postmordernist Allegory And Gómez-Arcos's Interview De Mrs. Muerta Smith Por Sus Fantasmas, Sharon G. Feldman Apr 1995

Sanctifying The Scatological And Debasing The Divine: Postmordernist Allegory And Gómez-Arcos's Interview De Mrs. Muerta Smith Por Sus Fantasmas, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

In February 1991, when Agustin Gómez-Arcos's Interview de Mrs. Muerta Smith por sus fantasmas premiered at Madrid's Sala Olimpia, the voice of one of Europe's most distinguished living writers triumphantly returned to the Spanish stage after an absence that had endured nearly twenty-six years. Born in Almería at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, Gómez-Arcos began his career in Madrid as an award-winning playwright. Eventually his ongoing struggle against Francoist censorship prompted his voluntary exile from Spain in 1966, and following a two-year sojourn in London, he arrived in Paris amid the clamor of 1968. Since that time he …

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Los Gatos: Gómez-Arcos's Spectacle Of Sacrifice, Sharon G. Feldman Apr 1995

Los Gatos: Gómez-Arcos's Spectacle Of Sacrifice, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Agustfn Gómez-Arcos's Los gatos is a powerful, chilling piece of theater, a sacrificial spectacle steeped in passion, violence, and death, which straddles the balustrade between the emotional intensity of a Lorcan tragedy and the grotesque hyperbolism and dark humor of Valle-lnclán's esperpentos. In 1965, a censored production of Los gatos, directed by Juan de Prat-Gay, premiered to a somewhat lukewarm reception at Madrid's Teatro Marquina. Then, in November 1992, nearly thirty years after its original première, director Carme Portaceli resuscitated and restaged this post-Civil-War allegory for a new generation of theatergoers. …

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Agustín Gómez-Arcos's Diálogos De La Herejía And The Deconstruction Of History, Sharon G. Feldman Nov 1994

Agustín Gómez-Arcos's Diálogos De La Herejía And The Deconstruction Of History, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

In 1962, Agustín Gómez-Arcos, a young dramatist, still new to the Madrid theater scene, won his first Premio Nacional Lope de Vega for the historical drama Diálogos de la herejía. Yet almost immediately, the prize was swept from his hands in a wave of controversy, annulled in a blatant gesture of censorship that signified the Franco Regime's official response to his unorthodox choice of thematic material, and consequently banned the play from the stages of Spain's state-supported teatros nacionales. Set amid the sacrificial flames of the Spanish Inquisition, Diálogos de la herejía portrays the turmoil and hysteria that rock a …

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Ello Dispara De Fermín Cabal: Hacia Una Configuración Posmoderna Del Espacio Textual/Teatral, Sharon G. Feldman Jan 1994

Ello Dispara De Fermín Cabal: Hacia Una Configuración Posmoderna Del Espacio Textual/Teatral, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Ya que estamos llegando al final (o, al desenlace) del siglo XX, casi se ha convertido en tópico la idea de señalar - semiologicamente hablando - la relación dinamica que existe en el teatro entre el texto y la representación de ese texto. Si vuelvo una vez más a esta dicotomía histórica, no es para establecer- como han hecho algunos semiólogos - un modelo comunicativo que plantee la posibilidad de una relación dialéctica entre los dos términos, sino para observar basta qué punto el teatro posmodernista plantea una ausencia y una imposibilidad de tal relación. Anne Ubersfeld propone la …

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Ello Dispara De Fermín Cabal: Hacia Una Configuración Posmoderna Del Espacio Textual/Teatral, Sharon G. Feldman Jan 1994

Ello Dispara De Fermín Cabal: Hacia Una Configuración Posmoderna Del Espacio Textual/Teatral, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Ya que estamos llegando al final (o, al desenlace) del siglo XX, casi se ha convertido en tópico la idea de señalar - semiológicamente hablando - la relación dinámica que existe en el teatro entre el texto y la representación de ese texto. Si vuelvo una vez más a esta dicotomía histórica, no es para establecer- como han hecho algunos semiólogos un modelo comunicativo que plantee la posibilidad de una relación dialéctica entre los dos términos, sino para observar hasta qué punto el teatro posmodernista plantea una ausencia y una imposibilidad de tal relación. Anne Ubersfeld propone la posibilidad de …

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Perlimplín: Lorca's Drama About Theatre, Sharon G. Feldman Oct 1991

Perlimplín: Lorca's Drama About Theatre, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

The contemplation of a theatrical work as a type of semiotizing machine which generates a network of signification systems, implies, a priori, the task of specifying the boundaries which define the object of analysis. Hence the dichotomy of text and performance has long been recognized as uniquely inherent in the theatre genre and, therefore, a logical preoccupation of the theatre semiotician. As indicated by contemporary theoretical work (such as that of Patrice Pavis and Anne Ubersfeld), it would appear that the role of the spectator in the reception of a performance is finally coming into view as an essential aspect …

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A Study Of Image, Symbol, And Theme In La Casa De Bernarda Alba, Iris Scribner Bird Jan 1971

A Study Of Image, Symbol, And Theme In La Casa De Bernarda Alba, Iris Scribner Bird

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The tragedy, La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico Garcia Lorca is generally recognized as one of the finest poetic tragedies of the Twentieth Century, yet it has not drawn the critical attention afforded the plays of Lorca's contemporaries, such as 'Tennessee Williams, for example. Ironically, Williams' early plays evince a definite. Lorquian influence. Close attention has been paid to the poetic texture of.Williams plays, providing an important contribution to understanding the art of his poetic tragedy. The same has not been true of Lorca. This may he due partly to the fact that Lorca's ·tragedies have not played very …

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The Nativity Plays Of New Mexico, Edwin C. Munro May 1940

The Nativity Plays Of New Mexico, Edwin C. Munro

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

The Southwest is a region and a concept. New Mexico is an integral part of it...The Spanish folk heritage of the Southwest is a cultural resource that is highly important in the regional complex...My attempt here, then, has been to clarify and make available to more people one feature of this cultural heritage--the nativity plays.

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The Social And Moral Principles In The Dramas Of Manuel Tamayo Y Baus, Sylvia Potuondo Apr 1934

The Social And Moral Principles In The Dramas Of Manuel Tamayo Y Baus, Sylvia Potuondo

Bachelors’ Theses

Of Tamayo y Baus it may be said as of the poets, that he was born and not made a dramatist. A friendly biographer, who lived in intimate relation with him, tells us that this great genius, like the gods or old, always appeared to him enveloped in a cloud. His actions were ever in conformity with his art-- even his death was as if practiced and rehearsed in anticipation, but on reading his critics we learn how very human was his life.

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