TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lima,Robert
TI  - Dark Prisms: Occultism in Hispanic Drama
T2  - Studies in Romance Languages
SN  - 9780813149691
AV  - PQ6102 .D375 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Spanish drama
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Latin American drama
KW  - Occultism in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part One: Evolution; I: Supernaturalism in Medieval Spanish Drama; II: Esoterica in the Golden Age Drama of Spain; III: The Demonic Pact and the Quest for Esoteric Knowledge; Part Two: Devolution; IV: Ancient Ways: Occult Lore in the Plays of Ramón del Valle-IncIán; V: Toward the Dionysiac: Pagan Elements and Rites in Federico García Lorca's ""Yerma""; VI: The Devil in the Blood: Genesis and Subversion of the Demonic Pact in Alejandro Casona; VII: Illuminati, Devils, and Witches: The Unholy Plays of Domingo Miras; VIII: The Orishas of Ifé: African Deities in Cuban and Brazilian DramaPart Three: Bibliography; IX: Drama of the Occult: A Bibliography of Spanish and Latin American Plays; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - The mythological, folkloric, and religious beliefs of Western culture have resulted in a long and ongoing history of esoteric themes in theatre from the Middle Ages to the present in Spain and the America. Now Robert Lima, a noted comparatist, brings to bear on this material his wide knowledge of the world of the occult. Lima defines the terms ""occult"" and ""occultism"" broadly to embrace the many ways in which humans have sought to fathom a secret knowledge held to be accessible only through such supernatural agencies as alchemy, angelology, asceticism, astrology, demonolatry, divination, e
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