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The present article provides a (neo)baroque reading of the dystopic and postapocalyptic universe of Homero Aridjis’ (Mexico, 1940) Gran teatro del fin del mundo. The use of dystopia and allegory subverts the Western anthropologic paradigm: utopias of continuous progress and triumphant [...]Abstract
The author of this article reviews the critical bibliography of the sacramental plays by Lope to show how scholars have always considered that this writer adapted elements and resources taken from his comedies into the sacramental plays. Actually, this article analyses the code of [...]Abstract
Eco y Narciso demonstrates the paradoxical coexistence of mutually exclusive views of its mythological material: on one hand, in the foreground of the scene, as it were, we have a tragic reading of the myth characterized by te moving representation of subjective feeling and a realist [...]
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In Calderón’s sacramental plays, we frequently find stage effects of dreaming, in which the characters sleep or dream different actions. The author of this article divides these effects in two types: dreamers and sleepers. We can not consider this theatrical operation as a simple [...]Abstract
This paper proposes an analysis of the semantic structure of the calderonian auto La serpiente de metal, combining the concepts of allegory and typology (taken from Biblical exegesis), those of symbol and sign (as defined by Niklas Luhmann), and those of meaning, fulfillment and evidence [...]Abstract
Estudio de los espacios míticos en los autos de argumento mitológico de Calderón, tales como islas, laberintos, jardines, o palacios maravillosos, analizando las dimensiones alegóricas orientadas por textos bíblicos y patrísticos en un ejercicio de síntesis cultural característico [...]