Format:
xlvi, 250 pages
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illustrations
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23 cm
ISBN:
0866986405
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9780866986403
Series Statement:
Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies volume 566
Content:
The Cancionero Background -- A Spectacle on Display -- The Gestation of Dramatic Modes -- The Dramatization of the Monologue -- The Sermon in Dramatic Effects -- Parody as Desacralization -- Dramatization on the Way to Performance -- Embryonic and Full-Fledged Theatricality -- Stage-Worthy Action: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Dimensions -- Visualizing the Stage -- Configuring the Actual Stage: The Pragmatics of the Mise en Scène -- A Religious Theater Newly Fashioned: Semiotic Functions.
Content:
As both layman and Franciscan friar, the Catalan writer known as Francesc Moner (ca 1463-1495) is one of the leading exponents of the bilingual (Catalan-Castilian) culture that flourished in Barcelona in the late 1400s. In his approach to Sepultura d'amor (Burial of Love), Moner's longest poem, Peter Cocozzella focuses on the author's ingenious version of a kind of parody that desacralizes but does not desecrate the celebration of the funeral Mass. Cocozzella discovers the aspects of Moner's unconventional idea of a theater based on the dramatics of the monologue and on the transformation of the divine ritual into a human analogue of transubstantiation. This allegorical pattern validates the profile of the masterpiece in question as one of the earliest manifestations of the auto sacramental, the distinctive theatrical genre scripted in the language of Castile. The book includes the text of Sepultura and its translation. -Publisher description
Note:
Includes bibliographical resources and index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Moner, Francisco 1463-1492
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Theater
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Auto sacramental
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