Unfettering Confession Ritualized Performance in Spanish Narrative and Drama

by Pace, Donald Gene

• ISBN13: 9780761845102
• ISBN10: 0761845100
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-09
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

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Author Biography

Donald Gene Pace is a professor of history and Spanish at Claflin University. He holds two Ph.D.s., in Hispanic literature and history, and an M.A. in political science.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Liberating a Captive Genre: Past Insights and New Perspectives	p. 1
Establishing the Confessional Subject	p. 1
St. Augustine	p. 2
Santa Teresa de Jesús	p. 3
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	p. 3
The Theorists' Legacy (Root, Tentler)	p. 4
Beyond Guilt and Religious Confession (Root, Tentler)	p. 4
A Genre of Crisis: From Humiliation to Hope (Zambrano, S.M. Levin)	p. 6
The Confessional Hero and the Quest for Self-discovery (Axthelm)	p. 7
The Author as Confessant (Chacel)	p. 7
The Appeal to an Audience: Confession and Society (Doody)	p. 8
A Perlocutionary Ritual: The Search for Reaffirmation and Healing (Foster)	p. 8
The Pattern of Death and Rebirth (Rosenberg)	p. 9
Penitence, Persuasion and Power: A Performative Model of Confession	p. 11
Freedom from Captivity	p. 13
Problems of Genre: Confessional Literature vis-à-vis Autobiography	p. 14
The Power of Interlocution and the Relations of Power	p. 15
Confessional Texts	p. 16
Rhetoric, Gestures and Emotion	p. 16
Heteroglossia and Speech Act Theory	p. 18
The Interlocutor	p. 20
Power: Hegemony and the Panopticon	p. 21
From Blindness to Sight: The Symbolic Journey	p. 23
Auricular and Ocular Confession: A New Confessional Model	p. 24
Confession and Liberty: Cervantes' "La historia del cautivo"	p. 27
Impious and Unbelieving Priests in the Spanish Confessional Tradition	p. 37
Epistolary Confession and the Inquisition: Gutiérrez's Cornelia Bororquia	p. 37
The Good but Unbelieving Priest: Unamuno's San Manuel Bueno, Mártir	p. 40
The Impious Confessor: Sender's Réquiem por un campesino español	p. 46
"Es de Lope": The Drama of Confession and Fuente Ovejuna	p. 51
Confessing Incognito: Zorrilla's Traidor, Inconfeso y mártir	p. 65
Confessional Literature: Redefining a Genre	p. 73
Notes	p. 77
Bibliography	p. 83
About the Author	p. 89
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