Tales of Seduction
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Tales of Seduction

The Figure of Don Juan in Spanish Culture

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Tales of Seduction

The Figure of Don Juan in Spanish Culture

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Don Juan is one of the most intriguing creations of Western literature, a perpetual source of fascination. In the popular imagination he exists as a legendary seducer of women, a trickster and transgressor of sacred boundaries. Crossing cultures from east to west, he has been the recipient of countless revisions, while the twentieth century has viewed the figure afresh through the prism of its own cultural terms of reference and social concerns. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Tales of Seduction focuses on the fascinating intersections between myth, culture and intellectual inquiry. Sarah Wright takes Don Juan back to Spain and examines the confluences of Spanish culture with aspects of Western intellectual history (such as medicine, psychoanalysis and linguistics), where she finds Don Juan continues to transgress the limits of culture until the present.

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Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2007
ISBN
9780857717276
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction: In Search of Don Juan
  7. 1. Opposites Attract: An Intellectual, Don Juan and Nation in Early Twentieth Century Spain
  8. 2. Performance Anxieties: Don Juan in the Consulting Room
  9. 3. Screen Seductions: Negotiating Theatricality in Don Juan Films
  10. 4. Repitition Compulsion: Redoing the Tenorio
  11. 5. Empty Promises: Opera and the Aesthetics of Cultural Consumption
  12. Conclusion: Between Limits
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index