Rewriting classical mythology in the Hispanic Baroque. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Isabel Torres.
• Other Names: Torres, Isabel, 1965-
• Contents: Introduction: con pretensión de Fénix / Isabel Torres -- 'Al cielo transladado': Quevedo's Apotheosis of Leander / D. Gareth Walters -- River gods of Andalusia: Pedro Espinosa's Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea / Trevor J. Dadson -- Galatea descending ... rereading Góngora's Polifemo stanzas 13-23 / Isabel Torres -- A tale of two serpents: biblical and mythological allusions in Cervantes's El celoso extremeño / Stephen Boyd -- The wound and the bow: Cervantes, Philoctetes and the pathology of genius / B.W. Ife -- Myth or history? Lope de Vega's Caballero de Olmedo / Anthony Lappin -- Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Eco y Narciso: court drama and the poetics of reflection / Jeremy Robbins -- From allegory to mockery: Baroque theatrical representations of the labyrinth / Bruce Swansey -- Mars recontextualized in the Golden Age of Spain: psychological and aesthetic readings of Velázquez's Marte / Oliver Noble Wood -- Ut pictura poesis: Calderón's picturing of myth / D.W. Cruickshank -- Opera on the margins in colonial Latin America: conceived under the sign of love / Jean Andrews.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, UK Rochester, NY : Tamesis
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 210 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 860.998; Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Baroque literature -- History and criticism; Mythology in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese; Baroque literature; Mythology in literature; Spanish literature -- Classical period; Mythos; Barock; Literatur; Spanisch; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846155888; 1846155886
• Related ISBNs: 9781855661387; 1855661381
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.