Love, desire and identity in the theatre of Federico García Lorca / Paul McDermid.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

McDermid, Paul.

Series:

Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 241.

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 241

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936--Dramatic works.

García Lorca, Federico.

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936.

Desire in literature.

Love in literature.

Drama.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

217 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis, 2007.

Summary:

Physical desire and metaphysical love in the theatre of Federico Garca Lorca.

Contents:

I Jesus of Love: the profane passion and holy spirit of the young poet's Cristo 9

The dialectic of flesh and spirit 13

The flesh and its limits 17

Mas alla: the realm of the spirit 20

The inversion of gender 27

A young man's vision 32

II Mariana Pineda: iconic martyr to Love 35

Which Mariana? 35

The play: its subject, structure and plot 37

From estampa to performance 43

From the material to the ethereal 47

The spiritual realm of dream and death 50

Mariana the martyr: the sacrifice of the body 53

'La Mariana amante': icon of Love 60

III The sacrifice of identity in Amor de Don Perlimplin con Belisa en su jardin 66

Perlimplin: at the heart of Garcia Lorca's theatre 66

The play's dualisms: plot and themes 69

Don Perlimplin: the monigote humanised 74

'La blanca Belisa': from empty vessel to eternal Love 79

Subversions of identity 84

Ritual and the transforming final sacrifice 93

Towards a production of new subjectivity 98

IV El publico: struggling with identity 101

The 'impossible' drama: homosexuality, structure and style 101

The key dialectic of surface and depth 114

Masculinity in question 126

Bodily boundaries 133

Queer acts: identity and existence as performance 138

V Hijo de mi alma! - gender inversion and the metaphysical reproduction of the Self in Yerma 142

A woman frustrated? Theme, plot and structure 142

A masculinised Yerma and an effeminate Juan 150

The theory of gender inversion 155

A desire for the Soul and the reproduction of Self 161

VI Beyond the outer walls: transvestite masquerade and transcendent escape in La casa de Bernarda Alba 169

Subversive acts 169

The photo documentary: drama in black and white 172

From realism to drag performance 175

On symbols and on the signs of Camp 181

The performance of gender 184

Beyond the walls of the house of Alba: Adela's challenge to Bernarda 191.

Notes:

Based on thesis (doctoral)--Trinity College, Dublin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-211) index.

ISBN:

1855661462

9781855661462

OCLC:

137222223