Jorge Diaz: Evolucion de un teatro eclectico.
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Title
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Jorge Diaz: Evolucion de un teatro eclectico.
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Identifier
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AAI9917626
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identifier
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9917626
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Creator
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Bauer, Oksana Maria.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Angela B. Dellepiane
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Date
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1999
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Latin American | Theater | Literature, Modern
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Abstract
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The object of this study is to trace the evolution of the theater of Chilean-Spanish playwright Jorge Diaz, from his beginning in 1960 to the present time, dedicating special attention to the plays written after 1975, since the majority of these are virtually unknown to Latin American theater scholars. The name of this prolific writer has been associated to this day almost exclusively with the Theater of the Absurd, disregarding the author's own attempts at breaking free from this early, and now-too-narrow, classification. This dissertation attempts to show the artistic versatility of this multifaceted writer, whose works span four decades of uninterrupted artistic endeavor. To accomplish this comprehensive analysis of his dramaturgic production, which consists of almost sixty plays, and encompasses two Spanish-speaking worlds---that of Spain and Latin America---as well as a great variety of dramatic forms and styles, I have organized his plays under the following five headings: (1) the theater of social absurdity, (2) the theater of socio-political absurdity, (3) erotic theater or "cafe-teatro," (4) historical theater, and (5) the theater of solitude (written after 1979). Hopefully, this study should prove once and for all that Jorge Diaz is much more than the author of that classic absurdist play of 1961, El cepillo de dientes.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
