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Comic techniques in Munoz Seca

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1990
Summary:
The comic plays of Munoz Seca have not received the critical acclaim, even the mention they deserve in drama criticism and theater histories. His comedies, originally performed between 1904 and 1936, have been hastily or superficially evaluated, and the merits of his canon have been entirely overlooked. Historical and critical backgrounds help introduce his work and establish a classification of the texts (over two-hundred plays), including especially the genre he invented, the astracan, and the character type he created, the fresco. Unique word-play underlies his typical use of caricature and parody. Comic verbal techniques include dialect, periphrasis, barbarism, and play on words. In general, beneath comic surfaces, lies sharp and consistent criticism of all that is false and pretentious in the Spain of his day.
Title: Comic techniques in Munoz Seca.
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Name(s): Leon, Gisela G.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Rangel, Vicente H., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1990
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 122 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The comic plays of Munoz Seca have not received the critical acclaim, even the mention they deserve in drama criticism and theater histories. His comedies, originally performed between 1904 and 1936, have been hastily or superficially evaluated, and the merits of his canon have been entirely overlooked. Historical and critical backgrounds help introduce his work and establish a classification of the texts (over two-hundred plays), including especially the genre he invented, the astracan, and the character type he created, the fresco. Unique word-play underlies his typical use of caricature and parody. Comic verbal techniques include dialect, periphrasis, barbarism, and play on words. In general, beneath comic surfaces, lies sharp and consistent criticism of all that is false and pretentious in the Spain of his day.
Identifier: 14631 (digitool), FADT14631 (IID), fau:11425 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1990.
Subject(s): Muñoz Seca, Pedro,--1881-1936
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