Pedro Calderón de la Barca and the World Theatre in Early Modern Europe
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-1-5015-2717-3 (ISBN)
The book presents a new close reading of Pedro Calderón's El gran teatro del mundo (c. 1633-36) and outlines the historical and systematic framework for a 'theatrum mundi of celebration.' This concept entails a way of using art to justify human existence in the face of changing conceptions of the cosmos - in the book described as an early modern aesthetic theodicy and a justification of the world in that liminal space between drama and ritual.
By discussing historiographical theories of early modern Europe, especially those of Hans Blumenberg and Bruno Latour, and through conversations with Shakespearean drama and Spanish Golden Age classics, the book also argues that the theatrum mundi of celebration questions traditional assumptions of great divides between the Middle Ages and Early Modernity and challenges theories of a European-wide early modern sense of crisis.
Rasmus Vangshardt (born 1988) is a Danish scholar of comparative literature. He is a visiting research fellow (2023–2025) at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, and a junior research fellow at Linacre College. He is a 2020 recipient of the Danish Government’s Young Elite Researcher’s Travel Scholarship. His research is currently funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Early Drama, Art, and Music |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 485 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik | |
| Schlagworte | Calderón de la Barca, Pedro • Early Modern Europe • Europa/Frühe Neuzeit • Golden Age Spain • Pedro Calderón de la Barca • Spanien/Goldenes Zeitalter • Theatrum mundi • Welttheater • World Theater |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5015-2717-7 / 1501527177 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5015-2717-3 / 9781501527173 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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