The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age DramaBucknell University Press, 2006 - 203 pages The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age Drama examines thevarious ways in which male and female dramatists present the figure ofthe ascetic woman in seventeenth-century Spanish theater.Play-wrights depict her not only as the solitary initiate of a rite ofpassage struggling to purify herself to approach spiritual perfection;they also focus on the clash between ascetic practice and the desiresof family, suitors, and patriarchal society. She may appear as both aforbidden fruit and Christ figure that is ultimately persecuted, scapegoated, and executed by a fearful society |
Contents
| 23 | |
The Woman Saint as Desiring Subject | 39 |
Sor Marcela de San Felixs Muerte del Apetito | 43 |
Lope de Vegas Vida ymuerte de Santa Teresa de Jesus | 64 |
The Woman Saint as Forbidden Fruit and Christ Figure | 80 |
Angela de Azevedos La Margarita del Tajo que dio nombre a Santaren | 83 |
Calderon de la Barcas El mAgico prodigioso | 98 |
The Woman Saint as Symbolic Mediator | 125 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adam and Eve Ángela Arenal and Sabat-Rivers ascetic Azevedo's baroque Britaldo Calderón characters Christ Christian Cipriano coloquios comedia comedia de santos communitas concept convent Counter-Reformation desirelessness devil devoción Dicha y desdicha Dios divine dramatists faith father Felisardo female ascetic female saints feminine Girard God's Golden Age Drama hagiographic honor human Ibid imitate Irene Irene's Jacques Lacan Jorge jouissance Justina Kristeva Lelio and Floro liminal lines literature Lope de Vega Lope's Luis Madrid mágico prodigioso male María mediator Medieval mimetic desire Mortification muerte de Santa Muerte del Apetito mujer myth play protagonist pues religious Remigio René Girard rite of passage ritual sacred sacrifice Santa Juana Santa Teresa Siglo Siglo de Oro society Soufas Soul Spain Spanish Golden Age spiritual suitors symbolic Teresa de Jesús tion Tirso de Molina trans Turner ultimately University Press Victor Turner Vida y muerte violence virtue woman saint women worldly desire York
Popular passages
Page 23 - ... of our argument that repetition speaks in the text of a return which ultimately subverts the very notion of beginning and end, suggesting that the idea of beginning presupposes the end, that the end is a time before the beginning, and hence that the interminable never can be finally bound in a plot. Analysis, Freud would eventually discover, is inherently interminable, since the dynamics of resistance and the transference can always generate new beginnings in relation to any possible end. " It...