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Don Juan, an everlasting character. October , 2005. Reviewer: Waldir Freitas Oliveira (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil),
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This review is from: Tirso's Don Juan: The Metamorphosis of a Theme (Hardcover)
On purpose of commemorating the fourth centenary of the birth of the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina, the Department of Modern Language and Literature of The Catholic University of America, sponsored a so-called The International Symposium on Tirso de Molina, which was organized by Dr. Joseph M. Sola-Solé, assistant professor, and took place in Washington D.C. in November 1988. One of the academic byproducts of that event is the volume Tirso's Dons Juan, Metamorphoses of a Theme, edited bu Joseph M. Sola-Solé and George E. Gingras, associate professor, and published in Washington D.C. The Catholic University of America, 1988. It assembles numerous scholary contributions then presented by well-known specialists in Hispanic Literature, although dealing with a single and specific the: Don Juan, the character and theatrical personage. As such, this book remains referred to as rare collection of high quality level studies on the subject.
I'ts hard task to distinguish any of the thirteen articles selected for this publication, because each one or them is worth enough to be summed up as unique in the meaningful conjoint of texts. A relevant theme as Tirso de Molina and his provocative personage, Don Juan, justify the value of this book as a whole. DThe erudition of the authors of the articles assembled by the book constitutes, as ma matter of fact, the most efficient factor for its success in the realm of literature, along with the appropriate viewpoints and approache adopted by the authors for analyzing and understanding the Spanish dramaturgical creation of Don Juan, undoubtedly one of the most famous characters os hero-villain of the world literature. In this book the article "The present state of Studies on the Don Juan", written by Armand Singer, of West Virginia University, deserves a special mention for having presented the most complete bibliography ever inlisted on the theme, and amplified after his research-book "The Don Juan Theme, Versions and Criticism: a Bibliography" (Morgantown, West Virginia Univesity Press, 1965) and is subsequent "Supplements", all of them published in the WVUPP, in 1966, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1980 and 198. The article "Some Observations on the Generic Status of the Don Juan Theme from Tirso de Molina to Mozart", signed by George E.Gingras, an associate professor of the Department of Modern Language and Literature of the Catholic University of America, by examining the problem of generic displacement performed by the theme in a variety of neoclassical dramatic and musical forms, also deserves another distinguishid mention.
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