Dark prisms : occultism in Hispanic drama / Robert Lima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lima, Robert, author.

Series:

Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 38.

Studies in Romance languages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish drama--History and criticism.

Spanish drama.

Occultism in literature.

Latin American drama--History and criticism.

Latin American drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 193 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The mythological, folkloric, and religious beliefs of Western culture have resulted in a long and ongoing history of esoteric themes in theatre from the Middle Ages to the present in Spain and the America. Now Robert Lima, a noted comparatist, brings to bear on this material his wide knowledge of the world of the occult. Lima defines the terms ""occult"" and ""occultism"" broadly to embrace the many ways in which humans have sought to fathom a secret knowledge held to be accessible only through such supernatural agencies as alchemy, angelology, asceticism, astrology, demonolatry, divination, e

Contents:

Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part One: Evolution; I: Supernaturalism in Medieval Spanish Drama; II: Esoterica in the Golden Age Drama of Spain; III: The Demonic Pact and the Quest for Esoteric Knowledge; Part Two: Devolution; IV: Ancient Ways: Occult Lore in the Plays of Ramón del Valle-IncIán; V: Toward the Dionysiac: Pagan Elements and Rites in Federico García Lorca's ""Yerma""; VI: The Devil in the Blood: Genesis and Subversion of the Demonic Pact in Alejandro Casona; VII: Illuminati, Devils, and Witches: The Unholy Plays of Domingo Miras; VIII: The Orishas of Ifé: African Deities in Cuban and Brazilian Drama; Part Three: Bibliography; IX: Drama of the Occult: A Bibliography of Spanish and Latin American Plays; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-4969-X

OCLC:

604101389