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The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age Drama
Christopher D. Gascón
出版Bucknell University Press, 2006
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / DramaLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women
ISBN08387564769780838756478
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZUgfuC-Th2sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age Drama examines thevarious ways in which male and female dramatists present the figure ofthe ascetic woman in seventeenth-century Spanish theater.Play-wrights depict her not only as the solitary initiate of a rite ofpassage struggling to purify herself to approach spiritual perfection;they also focus on the clash between ascetic practice and the desiresof family, suitors, and patriarchal society. She may appear as both aforbidden fruit and Christ figure that is ultimately persecuted, scapegoated, and executed by a fearful society