Title: Selected interdisciplinary essays on the representation of the Don Juan archetype in myth and culture /
Authors: Ginger, Andrew.; Hobbs, John; Lewis, Huw.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,; Juan, In literature.; European literature History and criticism.
Contents: Part 1: The birth of a legend. Sex, lies and dinner with the dead -- Seduced by appearances: seventeenth-century sceptics, libertines, and Tirso de Molina's Don Juan -- Part 2: Onto the operatic stage: before and beyond Mozart. Don Juan on the operatic stage -- Don Giovanni's also-rans: metamorphoses of Don Juan in the Opera House -- Don Giovanni: the transgressor transgressed -- Part 3: Romantic Don Juans and their descendants. Towards a melancholic rebel: Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol as a reworking of E.T.A. Hoffmann's idealistic Don Juan -- Zorilla's Don Juan Tenorio as cultural paradigm -- The woman who took the blam: the Don Juan archetype and his victims in Eca de Querios's Cousin Bazilio (O Primo Bazilio) -- Part 4: Twentieth-century Juan. Dashing on the silver screen: Don Juan Tenorio -- Gonzalo Torrente Ballester's Don Juan: a novel both before and after its time? -- The rational capitualization of the libertine: the trickster tricked: or, Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie / Max Frisch -- Tan largo me lo fiais': Saramago's Ricardo Reis as a Don Juan manque -- Part 5: The women take stock. Female desire versus male rationality in early Don Juan works.