Unfettering Confession: Ritualized Performance in Spanish Narrative and Drama - Brossura

Donald Gene Pace

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ISBN 10: 0761845100 ISBN 13: 9780761845102

Casa editrice: University Press of America, 2009

Riassunto

Confessional literature stretches beyond autobiography and overlaps every literary genre. It is eminently dramatic and always performative, it is a hopeful crying out in response to crisis, and a plea for reconciliation with community. It is an individuals private admission of guilt or a communitys open plea for mercy, an auricular-ocular confession, and a pervasive human activity that is both heard and seen.

This study introduces two major theoretical perspectives that have been consistently overlooked: the performance nature of confession, and the incorrect classification of confession as only a subset of autobiography. As this book demonstrates, confession is not always autobiographical but is always performative.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Dr. Donald Gene Pace is a professor of history and Spanish at Claflin University. He holds two Ph.D.s, in Hispanic literature and history, and an M.A. in political science.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University Press of America
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0761845100
• ISBN 13: 9780761845102
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 100
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Germania