Love, desire and identity in the theatre of Federico García Lorca. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paul McDermid.
• Other Names: McDermid, Paul
• Contents: Jesus of love : the profane passion and holy spirit of the young poet's Cristo. The dialectic of flesh and spirit ; The flesh and its limits ; Más allá : the realm of the spirit ; The inversion of gender ; A young man's vision -- Mariana Pineda : iconic martyr to Love. Which Mariana? ; The play : its subject, structure and plot ; From 'estampa' to performance ; From the material to the ethereal ; The spiritual realm of dream and death ; Mariana the martyr : the sacrifice of the body ; 'La Mariana amante' : icon of Love -- The sacrifice of identity in Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín. Perlimplín : at the heart of Garcia Lorca's theatre ; The play's dualisms : plot and themes ; Don Perlimplín : the 'monigote' humanised ; 'La blanca Belisa' : from empty vessel to eternal Love ; Subversions of identity ; Ritual and the transforming final sacrifice ; Towards a production of new subjectivity -- El público : struggling with identity. The 'impossible' drama : homosexuality, structure and style ; The key dialectic of surface and depth ; Masculinity in question ; Bodily boundaries ; Queer acts : identity and existence as performance -- ¡Hijo de mi alma! : gender inversion and the metaphysical reproduction of the Self in Yerma. A woman frustrated? : theme, plot and structure ; A masculinised Yerma and an effeminate Juan ; The theory of gender inversion ; A desire for the Soul and the reproduction of Self -- Beyond the outer walls : transvestite masquerade and transcendent escape in La casa de Bernarda Alba. Subversive acts ; The photo documentary : drama in black and white ; From realism to drag performance ; On symbols and on the signs of Camp ; The performance of gender ; Beyond the walls of the house of Alba : Adela's challenge to Bernarda.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, UK Rochester, NY : Tamesis
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (217 pages)
• Subjects: 862.62; Desire in literature; Love in literature; Désir dans la littérature; Amour dans la littérature; DRAMA -- Continental European; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese; Criticism and interpretation; Desire in literature; Love in literature; Drama; Liebe; Identität; Electronic books; Dramatic works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846155659; 1846155657
• Related ISBNs: 9781855661462; 1855661462
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• 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.