Hercules and the King of Portugal : icons of masculinity and nation in Calderón's Spain /
Hercules and the King of Portugal investigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons-Hercules and King Sebastian-are structured to express enduring nationhood. The classical...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press
[2019]
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| Serie: | New Hispanisms
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvb1hr04 |
Sommario:
- Introduction
- Honor, gender, and (Spanish) nation
- Part 1. Hercules. Hercules Hispanicus
- The deaths of Hercules
- Hercules redux : transvestism and the hombre esquivo
- Part 2. King Sebastian. En route to King Sebastian
- The once and future king : Sebastian and Sebastianisms
- Staging Sebastian : the body that mattered
- Conclusions.