El arte nuevo de estudiar comedias
Subtitle: literary theory and Spanish Golden Age drama
By: edited by Barbara Simerka.
Contributors: Simerka, Barbara, 1957-
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Lewisburg [Pa.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Postmodernism (Literature)
Description: This anthology of "new" approches to literary study takes its name from Lope de Vega's Arte nuevo de hacer comedias. Like Lope's poem on poetics, this volume also operates as a defense, in the sense that many of the articles include a defense of the usefulness of literary theory in general, and of their chosen approach in particular, for enriching the study of the comedia.

In these essays, it is the not quite new art of "estudiar" rather than "hacer" drama that is the central concern, the contributors defending theoretical innovations approximately twenty years after James Parr, in the pages of Hispania, issued his challenge to Hispanists to update their approach.

This volume, which combines innovative scholarship with the "metacriticism" that many critics advocate in all literary study, is directed both the students of literature and to scholars who wish to expand their knowledge of the many different areas of theoretical inquiry that comediantes are currently exploring.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.