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Book In Defense of Don Giovanni

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luisa Passerini
  • Publisher : punctum books
  • Release : 2024
  • ISBN : 1685711448
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book In Defense of Don Giovanni written by Luisa Passerini and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2024 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who wants to champion the figure of Don Giovanni in the time of Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo? Don Giovanni is a rapist, murderer, serial seducer, and a liar. Can he ever be held up as a role model or seen as a figure to be enjoyed? This is the task that the eminent Italian historian and lifelong feminist, Luisa Passerini, sets for herself in In Defense of Don Giovanni. As she developed the long arc of her distinguished career, Don Giovanni surprisingly became not only her role model but also a secret object of research.Taking her method from oral history, Passerini creates a series of characters with whom she discusses the forms and incarnations of the myth of Don Giovanni across time, from its first appearance in early medieval Spain and Commedia dell'Arte to its many European variations and its transposition to the colonial and postcolonial world in the Middle East, the Americas, and Africa. Pivoting round Don Giovanni's best known incarnation in Mozart's opera, Passerini and he interlocutors meet in different locations from Venice and Bern to Paris and Turin. They discuss plays, films, and operas and talk about art, novels, and psychoanalytic interpretations of the myth while also sharing their own life stories, in which Don Giovanni often plays a part that is, by turns, destructive, mischievous, and full of the joy of life. From his early beginnings in the Iberian Peninsula to recent analysis of the sexuality of colonial conquest and postcolonial revenge and return, Don Giovanni shape-shifts between rapacious hypermasculinity, comic trickster, and morally vacuous loser whose annoyingly persistent nemesis Don Ottavio emerges as an alternative and ultimately better object of desire. As she tracts Don Giovanni's image across the world and through the centuries, however, Passerini comes to see that it also plays another role, that of mirror, in which women can see themselves emerge as individuals with their own life force. -- back cover.

Book New Dangerous Liaisons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luisa Passerini
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2010-10-01
  • ISBN : 1845459768
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book New Dangerous Liaisons written by Luisa Passerini and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from others. Contributors to this volume trace historical links and analyse specific connections between the two discourses on love and Europe over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the distinctions made between the public and private, the political and personal. In doing so, this volume develops an innovative historiography that includes such resources as autobiographies, love letters, and cinematic representations, and takes issue with the exclusivity of Eurocentrism. Its contributors put forth hypotheses about the historical pre-eminence of emotions and consider this history as a basis for a non-Eurocentric understanding of new possible European identities.

Book Topographies of Fascism

Download or read book Topographies of Fascism written by Nil Santiáñez-Tió and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topographies of Fascism offers the first comprehensive exploration of how Spanish fascist writing – essays, speeches, articles, propaganda materials, poems, novels, and memoirs – represented and created space from the early 1920s until the late 1950s. Nil Santiáñez contends that fascism expressed its views on the state, the nation, and the society in spatial terms (for example, the state as a “building,” the nation as an “organic unity,” and society as the “people's community”), just as its adherents celebrated fascism in its architecture, public spectacles, and military rituals. While Topographies of Fascism centres on Spain, a nation that produced a large number of fascist texts focused on space, it also draws on works written by key German, Italian, and French fascist politicians and intellectuals. Ultimately, it provides an innovative model for analyzing the comparable yet often overlooked strategies of symbolic representation and production of space in fascist political and cultural discourse.

Book El hecho de los tratados del matrimonio pretendido por el Principe de Gales con la serenissima Infante de Espa  a Maria

Download or read book El hecho de los tratados del matrimonio pretendido por el Principe de Gales con la serenissima Infante de Espa a Maria written by Francisco de Jesus and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book El Hecho de Los Tratados Del Matrimonio Pretendido Por El Principe de Gales Con la Serenissima Infante de Espana  Maria  Tomado Desde Sus Principos Para Maior Demonstracion de la Verdad  Y Ajustado Con Los Papeles Originales Desde Consta

Download or read book El Hecho de Los Tratados Del Matrimonio Pretendido Por El Principe de Gales Con la Serenissima Infante de Espana Maria Tomado Desde Sus Principos Para Maior Demonstracion de la Verdad Y Ajustado Con Los Papeles Originales Desde Consta written by Francisco de Jesús and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Don Juan Theme

Download or read book The Don Juan Theme written by Armand Edwards Singer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conyugalidad positiva

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  • Author : Fernando Vidal Fernández
  • Publisher : Universidad Pontifica Comillas
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 8484688151
  • Pages : 447 pages

Download or read book Conyugalidad positiva written by Fernando Vidal Fernández and published by Universidad Pontifica Comillas. This book was released on 2019 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Hispanic Philology

Download or read book Journal of Hispanic Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Cultural Index

Download or read book Spanish Cultural Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 2492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Unamuno Source Book

Download or read book An Unamuno Source Book written by Mario J. Valdés and published by Toronto: University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book El hecho de los tratados del matrimonio

Download or read book El hecho de los tratados del matrimonio written by Francisco de Jesús and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in Spain

Download or read book Who s who in Spain written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Cultural Index

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  • Author : Spain. Dirección General de Relaciones Culturales
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1180 pages

Download or read book Spanish Cultural Index written by Spain. Dirección General de Relaciones Culturales and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La Novela Revolucionaria  Contribuci  n a La Cr  tica

Download or read book La Novela Revolucionaria Contribuci n a La Cr tica written by Dr. Guido J. Arze and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En Bolivia, el 9 de abril de 1952, despus de tres das de combates los trabajadores derrotaron al ejrcito nacional, arrebataron el poder poltico a la oligarqua e impusieron un gobierno al servicio del pueblo. Naci la Revolucin Nacional, una de las tres ms grandes realizadas en Latinoamrica durante el Siglo XX. El ensayo La Novela Revolucionaria. Contribucin a la Crtica demuestra que novellas publicadas durante el perodo pre revolucionario, provocaron cambios ideolgicos en las conciencias de los lectores populares, y de ese modo contribuyeron a la Revolucin Nacional Boliviana. Otras novelas escritas durante los aos del gobierno revolucionario, procuraron crear una conciencia en favor de una revolucin socialista. Al hacerlo instauraron un nuevo subgnero novelstico: La novela revolucionaria boliviana. El ensayo est enfocado en el anlisis dialctico de dos categoras: Historia y novela. Ofrece referencias conceptuales formuladas por tericos (Karl Marx, Georg Lukcs, Gerald Genette y Robert Jauss) que privilegian una crtica literaria basada en las interconexiones entre el desarrollo social y la cosmovisin que se expresa en las novellas que refl ejan, de uno u otro modo, dicha realidad. El ensayo precisa que la novella boliviana posee la capacidad de tomar de la vida de los trabajadores sus experiencias ms esenciales, y las expresa artsticamente. Siendo lo ms relevante el propsito de ayudarles a convertirse de una clase en s a una clase para s. El mrito del ensayo del Dr. Guido J. Arze es haber sabido demostrar que las novellas revolucionarias bolivianas ayudaron a promover la lucha armada liberadora, usndolas como vehculos de concientizacin, y con ello consagraron un nuevo subgnero: La novella revolucionaria boliviana. Novela que difi ere en cuanto a su funcin de sus semejantes las novelas de la Revolucin Mexicana y de la Revolucin Cubana.

Book LEV

Download or read book LEV written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: