Aspects of Byron's Don Juan - Hardcover

Peter Cochran

9781443847346: Aspects of Byron's Don Juan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443847348 ISBN 13: 9781443847346

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

ASPECTS OF BYRON'S DON JUAN is in part a proceedings volume from the 2012 conference held by the Newstead Byron Society at Nottingham Trent University. Speakers represented in the book include Malcolm Kelsall, Peter Cochran, Diego Saglia and Itsuyo Higashinaka. Topics range from the politics of Don Juan, and its treatment of women, to its comic rhymes. One section is devoted to the poem's importance in the literatures of Spain and Russia, another to the vast catalogue of Byron's prose sources (from cannibalism to cookery books), and a final section to the important role played by Mary Shelley in copying most of the poem for the printer. The editor's introduction describes the enormous literary tradition of which Don Juan forms a vital continuation, from Pulci's Morgante Maggiore, via Rabelais, Cervantes, and Montaigne, to the novelists Sterne, Smollett and Fielding, all of whom Byron adored. Another chapter concerns the differing ways in which Don Juan has been treated by other artists, from Tirso de Molina, via E.T.A. Hoffman, to Johnny Depp.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:

"Excellent account of Don Juan's relationship with multiple European traditions."The Newstead Abbey Byron Society (formerly The International Byron Society)

About the Author:

Peter Cochran edits the work and correspondence of Byron on the website of the International Byron Society. He has lectured on Byron all over the world, and has published many books on the poet.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.