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Re-Gendering the Libertine; or, The Taming of the Rake: Lucy Vestris as Don Giovanni on the Early Nineteenth-Century London Stage
No full textWhen Luigi Bassi entered the stage of the Prague National Theatre in 1787 to create the title role of Mozart and Da Ponte's Don Giovanni, he could have drawn inspiration from a rich tradition of theatrical, pantomimic and marionette representations of the legendary Don Juan, to which this new opera was the latest contribution. Previous incarnations had been shaped by the likes of Tirso de Molina, Molière, Shadwell, Purcell and Gluck; yet it is Mozart and Da Ponte's version that has for us become the definitive: the Don as paradox; an uncomfortable blend of the despicable and the admirable, hero and anti-hero. Lecher, rapist, liar, cheat, murderer, he is the brutal epitome of macho striving for power and domination, yet clothed with a seductive panache, conviction and bravado — the reckless-heroic libertine phallocrat who would rather face the fires of eternal damnation than curb his appetites
Między stłumieniem a autentycznością. Metafora Don Carlosa w filmie Leontine Sagan Dziewczęta w mundurkach
No full textMazur Daria, Między stłumieniem a autentycznością. Metafora Don Carlosa w filmie Leontine Sagan Dziewczęta w mundurkach [Between Suppression and Authenticity. The Metaphor of Don Carlos in Leontine Sagan’s Movie Mädchen in Uniform]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 32. Poznań 2019, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 143–166. ISSN 1644-6763. DOI 10.14746/pt.2019.32.7.
The article is a comprehensive analysis of the intertextual references to Frederick Schiller’s tragedy Don Carlos in Leontine Sagan’s movie Girls in Uniform (Mädchen in Uniform, 1931). The author considers the complex circumstances of the cooperation between the director and the artistic director, Carl Froelich, during the production. Moreover, she also presents the literary basis for the movie, namely the tragedy by Christy Winsloe (Gestern und Heute – Yesterday and Today).On this basis, the author analyses the multilevel presence of two phenomena in the movie: suppression and authenticity, which are related to the metaphor of Don Carlos and the plot of love between two women. The contexts for the analysis are inspired by research in the anthropology of romanticism, psychoanalysis, the psychology of sexual identity, and research on the works of Frederick Schiller.Mazur Daria, Między stłumieniem a autentycznością. Metafora Don Carlosa w filmie Leontine Sagan Dziewczęta w mundurkach [Between Suppression and Authenticity. The Metaphor of Don Carlos in Leontine Sagan’s Movie Mädchen in Uniform]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 32. Poznań 2019, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 143–166. ISSN 1644-6763. DOI 10.14746/pt.2019.32.7.
The article is a comprehensive analysis of the intertextual references to Frederick Schiller’s tragedy Don Carlos in Leontine Sagan’s movie Girls in Uniform (Mädchen in Uniform, 1931). The author considers the complex circumstances of the cooperation between the director and the artistic director, Carl Froelich, during the production. Moreover, she also presents the literary basis for the movie, namely the tragedy by Christy Winsloe (Gestern und Heute – Yesterday and Today).On this basis, the author analyses the multilevel presence of two phenomena in the movie: suppression and authenticity, which are related to the metaphor of Don Carlos and the plot of love between two women. The contexts for the analysis are inspired by research in the anthropology of romanticism, psychoanalysis, the psychology of sexual identity, and research on the works of Frederick Schiller
The Masks of Don Juan
No full textW artykule podjęto refleksję nad wybranymi literackimi, ideowymi, społecznymi i obyczajowymi kontekstami genezy Don Juana Molière’a (1665), by wskazać powiązania między charakterystycznymi dla połowy XVII wieku zjawiskami kulturowymi a sposobem ukształtowania tytułowej postaci i niektórych wątków dramatu. Autorka przypomina stawiane przez różnych badaczy hipotezy na temat literackich i kulturowych korzeni Molierowskiej wersji opowieści o Don Juanie, skupiając się szczególnie na kontekstach związanych z kulturą hiszpańską. Podkreśla również, że autorowi udało się wpisać w fabularną materię legendy uwodziciela wiele komentarzy do rzeczywistości. Pomysły zakorzenione w estetycznych poszukiwaniach oraz w aktualnych dyskusjach i sporach ideowo-światopoglądowych przyczyniły się do stworzenia bohatera, którego doświadczenie koresponduje także w wielu aspektach z doświadczeniem współczesnego czytelnika i widza.This article considers selected literary, ideological, and social contexts of the origins of Molière’s Don Juan (1665) in order to demonstrate links between particular cultural phenomena of the mid-seventeenth century and the construction of the play’s protagonist and some thematic motifs. The author reviews various hypotheses concerning the literary and cultural roots of Molière’s version of the story of Don Juan, to focus on the evocation of Spanish cultural contexts. She also emphasizes that the author managed to incorporate into the story of the legendary seducer ample commentary pertaining to factual reality. Ideas rooted in aesthetic explorations and current ideological discussions and disputes contributed to the creation of a protagonist whose experience also corresponds in many aspects to that of the present-day reader and theatergoer
Route of Don Quixote as a mnemotope
No full textIn this article the author argues that Route of Don Quixote is a mnemotope, which allows
to examine the relations betwen landscape, literary trails and collective memory. The author
suggests that the Mancha’s landscape can be considered as the fi rst in the history of Western
culture and this fact should be connected with the values of the Spanish community.
Noticing that the Route of Don Quixote is the mnemotope clarifi es why it was the fi rst
European Cultural Itinerary constructed on a literary fi gure, explains the political usage of
the fi gure of Don Quixote, the reasons for passionate discussions on how to commemorate
cervantine anniversaries or dispute about the true knight-errant wandering route. The author
explores some of the contemporary cervantine place of memory (the date of III and
IV Centenary of the edition of the fi rst part of the novel, the famous Azorín’s journey, Quixotic
street names, „true” novelistic places, landscape with windmills).
The author characterizes various communities of memory (exiliados, readers, cervantists),
that used the fi gure of Quixote. The author asks whether traveling in search of the
knight’s footsteps is drifting the physical space or rather an imitation of his actions. From
the perspective of memory research there are multiple routes of Don Quixote, because in
different communities are cultivated different memories of true knight’s route. Using the
Halbwachs’ concept the author shows the importance of location of Don Quixote’s adventures.
Pondering the meaning of „death of cervantine landscape” the author concludes that
the literary vision of The Mancha, „holy landscape” in which the community reaffi rms its
value, still exist
Literackie ślady w socjologii (pomiędzy Królową Śniegu a Don Kichotem)
No full textThe author puts forward the thesis that belles lettres is one of the potential sources of knowledge about the social world which are still underappreciated by sociologists. Literature furnishes at least inspiration for the description of social phenomena. In a special way it engages the problems associated with the use of metaphors drawn directly from literary works to represent sociologically recognizable regularities. In this case the means of problematization could be associated with a literary figure (the Snow Queen, Don Quijote), metaphor (the world as a theatre) or when the title of a research work may constitute a direct reference to literature (“Wrestling against the world”, “A tournament of humpbacks”). In all of these cases a literary image becomes a starting point, a germ of a sociological analysis or its illustration, and thus a means of familiarizing oneself with the social world.Autor stawia tezę, że belles lettres jest jednym z potencjalnych źródeł wiedzy o świecie społecznym, które są wciąż niedoceniane przez socjologów. Literatura dostarcza co najmniej inspiracji do opisu zjawisk społecznych. W szczególny sposób angażuje problemy związane z wykorzystaniem metafor zaczerpniętych wprost z dzieł literackich do reprezentacji socjologicznie rozpoznawalnych prawidłowości. W tym przypadku środki problematyzacji mogą być związane z postacią literacką (Królowa Śniegu, Don Quijote), metaforą (świat jako teatr) lub gdy tytuł pracy badawczej może stanowić bezpośrednie odniesienie do literatury („Zapasy ze światem”, „Turniej garbusów”). We wszystkich tych przypadkach obraz literacki staje się punktem wyjścia, zalążkiem analizy socjologicznej lub jej ilustracją, a tym samym sposobem oswajania świata społecznego
Don King and Joseph E. Lowery, 1997
No full textDon King and Joseph E. Lowery are shown posing for a picture.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
Evelyn G. Lowery and Don King, 1997
No full textEvelyn G. Lowery and Don King are shown posing for a picture.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
Volume 10, Issue 1: Full Issue
No full textFull issue of the November 1942 issue of Manuscripts. Includes work by: Patricia Sylvester, Lucy Kaufman, Richard Moores, Janet Jarrett, Mary Margarette Schortemeier, Virginia Skidmore, Jeanne Gass, Jeane Siskel, Bob Dyer, Thomas Haynes, William Roberts, Nancy Rodecker, Doris Daley, W. S. McLean, Peggy O\u27Donnell, Dorothy Masters, Ann Holloway, Dick Runnels, Lois Jean Shipley, Mary Elizabeth Donnell, Don Griffith, and Betty Alice Hodson
Logological Poetry: An Editorial
No full textIt was Dmitri Borgmann who put the word logology into circulation. Before Language on Vacation, his first book, was published, he wrote to me: I don\u27t believe the word \u27logology\u27 has ever appeared in a book devoted to words or puzzles. I dug it out of the unabridged Oxford while searching for a suitable name for my activity
O przyszłości „Trasy Don Kichota” i krajobrazu mancyjskiego
No full textOn the future of the “Don Quixote Trail” and the landscape of La ManchaLiterary trails have recently been the focus of particular interest of scholarship and its peripheries e.g. the conference Creative Cities and Regions. Challenges for Cooperation among the Cities of Literature, Conrad Festival, Kaków, 25–26 October 2012 or the Reading Małopolska project, with people having hopes concerning not only learning but also commerce associated with the development of these trails. An analysis of the phenomenon of the “Don Quixote Trail,” which is over two-thousand kilometres long and over one-hundred years old, has been used by the author to present a model of a literary trial understood as a cultural trail and to examine the transformations that affect it today. The author focuses on two phenomena with references to the future: on the one hand, on measures aimed at establishing a “Kingdom of Don Quixote” a postmodern entertainment park, and on the other — on processes and their recognition, which can be described as the “death of La Mancha” the death of the Cervantes landscape. She refers these phenomena to the “Don Quixote Trail,” known from descriptions by famous “literary” pilgrims. Does the future of the “Don Quixote Trail” lie in El Reino de Don Quijote, the construction of which has had its ups and downs? Do various speculative investments not obscure what does not change so fast in culture? Is not the empirical reality itself perhaps more resistant to change than we think?On the future of the “Don Quixote Trail” and the landscape of La ManchaLiterary trails have recently been the focus of particular interest of scholarship and its peripheries e.g. the conference Creative Cities and Regions. Challenges for Cooperation among the Cities of Literature, Conrad Festival, Kaków, 25–26 October 2012 or the Reading Małopolska project, with people having hopes concerning not only learning but also commerce associated with the development of these trails. An analysis of the phenomenon of the “Don Quixote Trail,” which is over two-thousand kilometres long and over one-hundred years old, has been used by the author to present a model of a literary trial understood as a cultural trail and to examine the transformations that affect it today. The author focuses on two phenomena with references to the future: on the one hand, on measures aimed at establishing a “Kingdom of Don Quixote” a postmodern entertainment park, and on the other — on processes and their recognition, which can be described as the “death of La Mancha” the death of the Cervantes landscape. She refers these phenomena to the “Don Quixote Trail,” known from descriptions by famous “literary” pilgrims. Does the future of the “Don Quixote Trail” lie in El Reino de Don Quijote, the construction of which has had its ups and downs? Do various speculative investments not obscure what does not change so fast in culture? Is not the empirical reality itself perhaps more resistant to change than we think
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