Fashioning the Ancien Regime
Alarcon's Sombrero de tres picos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8953752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James D Fernandez (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235-235 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2176 • E-ISSN: 1553-0639 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/475106 |
| OpenAlex | W2051065361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
i the text translated into at least seven different ,, languages during the author's lifetime, but its storyline has since s rved as the basis for French, -Belgian and German operettas, a number of films in both Italy and Spain, and, of course, the ballet composed by Manuel de Falla which premiered in London in 1919 with sets by Picasso and choreography by Massine. In a certain sense, this international acclaim is fitting; after all, the basic story of El sombrero de tres picos does emerge from the pan-European folk-tradition and an ancestor of the tale can be found in a book translated into Castilian from Arabic in the thirteenth century.1 Nevertheless, the folk origins and the cosmopolitan reception and assimilation of El sombrero seem to have torn the novel out of its immediate context-Spain, 1874-and transformed it into a universal divertimento. In this paper my goal is to begin to recontextualize the novel; to sketch some of the ways the book might be
Ancien regime · Art · Political science · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Historical and Literary Analyses · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2020 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |