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Hispanic Connection Spanish and Spanish-American Literature in the Arts of the World

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ISBN-10: 0275980901

ISBN-13: 9780275980900

Edition: 2003

Authors: Zenia S. DaSilva

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DaSilva draws together key essays dealing with the span of Spanish and Latin American arts, ranging from literature, music, film, and ballet to painting. The selections center on ten basic themes: The early icons of Spain; the uses of Don Quixote from operas to painting; Don Juan is given a similar treatment, with theater, film, and ballet in addition to literature and opera; an examination of areas of fusion of Spanish and Mexican culture; Spanish Romantics in opera and ballet; modern writers whose work appears in musical transcription; modern writers whose novels appear in film; an examination of works that parody earlier pieces; a survey of the interrelationship between painting and its…    
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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 4/30/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.55" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 2.024

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Icons of Early Spain
The Existential Rodrigo, Last of the Goths
The Cid: Four Operatic Transformations of a Spanish Classic
Bridges of Song: Christian, Judaic, and Islamic Influences in Poetry and Music
The Spanish Muse in Italy: Tirante el Blanco, La vida es sueno, and Don Quijote
The Golden Age Revisited in Twentieth-Century Art Songs
The Universal Don Quixote
Don Quixote on the Western Frontier
Don Quixote chez Donizetti, chez Massenet
George Eliot's Dorothea in Light of Cervantes's Dorotea
Cervantes in Bolivia: The Painter Walter Solon Romero as Spokesman of Don Quixote
Don Quixote as Theatre
"Monsignor Quixote": Graham Greene Rewriting Unamuno Rewriting Cervantes
The Filmic Quixote of The Fisher King: Sancho as Radio Talk-Show Host
The Peripatetic Don Juan
Mythic Misnomers: Reinventing Don Juan in Moliere and Mozart
Byron's Don Juan: The Burlador Burlesqued
Don Juan in Hell: George Bernard Shaw's Perverse Sexual Politics
Don Juan Tenorio: From the "Romancero" to Don Juan de Marco
Don Juan in the New World: The Erotics of Conquest in Chocano, Fuentes, and Walcott
Point of Contact: New Spain
A Diverse Legacy: The Hispanic Impact on Mask Use in Mexico
Poetry of Praise to the Virgin of Guadalupe
Century XX: Legacy of the Spanish Exiles in Mexican Music
Spanish Romantics et al. in Opera and Ballet
La Forza del Destino: Destiny as Portrayed by Rivas and Verdi
Garcia Gutierrez's Bequest to Verdi: Il Trovatore and Simon Boccanegra
The Fatal Triangle: Don Carlos, King Philip, and Elizabeth of Valois in Literature and Opera
El sombrero de tres picos and Its Projection in Opera and Ballet
Albeniz's Pepita Jimenez: The Strange Expropriation of Juan Valera's Novel
Modern Writers in Musical Transcription
Federico Garcia Lorca and His Influence on Music and Dance
A Composer's Journey with the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca
Poetry to Song: Modern Spanish Poetry Set to Music by Twentieth-Century Composers
From the Composer's Viewpoint: The Dialogue between Music and Poetry
Harmonic Mirrors within Circular Time: A Study of Mario Lavista's Ficciones
Of Echoes and Clones: Mirror Images in Borges's The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
From Novel to Silver Screen
Galdos on Film: Dona Perfecta, a Mexican Melodrama
Vicente Blasco Ibanez and the Movie Novel
Garcia Marquez in Film: His Image of Women
Texts Intertwined
Play It Again, Sam: The Reappearance of Spanish Plays in Genero Chico Parodies
Against the Grain: A Revisionist View of Golden Age Icons in Fuentes's Terra Nostra
Integrating Multiple Texts in Pablo Iglesias, an Original Play with Music by Lauro Olmo
Parallel Worlds in The House of Bernarda Alba and Like Water for Chocolate
Word Pictures and Stroke of Brush
Speaking in White Cloth: Painting on Writing, Writing on Painting (A Presentation in Dialogue Form)
Painting the Poetic Image: Lessons James Wright Learned from Hispanic Poets and Painters
The Pointed Pen at Large
The Literary Relationship between Derek Walcott and Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Metaphors of Progress: The Transmigration of The Kiss of the Spider Woman
Children's "Subversive Literature": Heriberto Frias, Antonio Skarmeta, and Ana Maria Shua
Name Index
Title Index
About the Editor and Contributors