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Tales of seduction : the figure of Don Juan in Spanish culture
- Title
- Tales of seduction : the figure of Don Juan in Spanish culture / Sarah Wright.
- Author
- Wright, Sarah, 1969-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies, ©2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN57.D7 W75 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 285 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Don Juan is one of the intriguing creations of Western literature. A subject of countless revisions, he seems a perpetual source of fascination. In the popular imagination he exists as the legendary seducer of women, charismatic rogue and trickster. A potent icon of male sexual energy, he crosses cultures, from east to west." "The twentieth-century has viewed the figure afresh through the prism of its own cultural terms of reference and social concerns. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Tales of Seduction focuses on those intersections between myth, culture and intellectual inquiry, yielding new connections. Sarah Wright takes Don Juan back to Spain and examines the confluences of Spanish culture with aspects of Western intellectual history. Wright explores how Don Juan has entered into and been received in different ways in aspects of Spanish Culture (opera, cinema, theatre, photography and virtual realities) and Western theory (nationhood, medicine, psychoanalysis, consumerism) in the twentieth-century and at the start of the twenty-first."--Jacket
- Alternative Title
- Figure of Don Juan in Spanish culture
- Subject
- Juan, Don (Legendary character)
- Don Juan
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte
- Literature and society > Spain
- Film adaptations > History and criticism
- Popular culture > Spain > History > 20th century
- Film adaptations
- Literature and society
- Popular culture
- Kultur
- Popular culture > Spain > History
- Litteratur och samhälle > Spanien
- Filmatisering av litterära verk
- Popkultur > historia > Spanien > 1900-talet
- Spain
- Spanien
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-274) and index.
- Contents
- Opposites attract : an intellectual, Don Juan and nation in early twentieth-century Spain -- Performance anxieties : Don Juan in the consulting room -- Screen seductions : negotiating theatricality in Don Juan films -- Repetition compulsion : redoing the tenorio -- Empty promises : opera and the aesthetics of cultural consumption.
- ISBN
- 9781845114770
- 1845114779
- OCLC
- ocn154698752
- 154698752
- SCSB-1462605
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library