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Eight Dramas of Calderon
Pedro Calderon Barca
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Description for Eight Dramas of Calderon
Paperback. Provocative and entertaining, these plays in Fitzgerald's English translation are available together in paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 76. Weight in Grams: 516.
Throughout the world, people believe that much of what they do is accidental, ordinary, and inconsequential, while other acts can bring on divine retribution or earn eternal grace. In Man and the Sacred, Caillois demonstrates how humanity's ambiguous attitude toward the sacred influences behavior and culture.
Drawing on a diverse array of ethnographic contexts, including the sexual rituals of the Ba-Thong of South Africa and evidence drawn from aboriginal Australian, Eskimo, and traditional Chinese social systems, Caillois analyzes the role of the forbidden in the social cohesion of the group. He examines the character of the sacred ... Read more
Throughout the world, people believe that much of what they do is accidental, ordinary, and inconsequential, while other acts can bring on divine retribution or earn eternal grace. In Man and the Sacred, Caillois demonstrates how humanity's ambiguous attitude toward the sacred influences behavior and culture.
Drawing on a diverse array of ethnographic contexts, including the sexual rituals of the Ba-Thong of South Africa and evidence drawn from aboriginal Australian, Eskimo, and traditional Chinese social systems, Caillois analyzes the role of the forbidden in the social cohesion of the group. He examines the character of the sacred ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252069031
SKU
V9780252069031
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About Pedro Calderon Barca
Roger Caillois (1913-78), a French philosopher and writer, was a cofounder of France's pathbreaking Collège de Sociologie pour l'Étude du Sacré and the founding editor of Diogenes, the journal of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies. His books included works of anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, art, and literary criticism. Meyer Barash, coeditor of Marriage and the Family: A Comparative ... Read more
Reviews for Eight Dramas of Calderon
"This handsomely produced volume brings together the plays published in FitzGerald's 1853 edition of Six Dramas of Caldern, plus the two works privately printed in 1865, The Mightly Magician and Such Stuff as Dreams are Made Of.Overall FitzGerald's versions are written in good Shakespearean pastiche, and eminently stageable."
Eamonn Rodgers, Times Literary Supplement
Eamonn Rodgers, Times Literary Supplement