TY - BOOK AU - Pennington,Eric Wayne TI - Approaching the theater of Antonio Buero Vallejo : contemporary literary analyses from structuralism to postmodernism SN - 9780820488400 (alk. paper) U1 - 862.64 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Peter Lang N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The times and their playwright -- Entering the silences of Historia de una escalera -- Las palabras en la arena and En la ardiente oscuridad : structures of the Christian unconscious -- Music and death in En la ardiente oscuridad -- The biblical archetypes of El concierto de San Ovidio -- Music as polyvalent signifier in El concierto de San Ovidio -- El concierto de San Ovidio : deconstructing Western metaphysics and binary logic -- Employing personal intertexts : the alcoholic impresario of El concierto de San Ovidio -- La doble historia del Dr. Valmy : a view from the feminine -- La doble historia del Dr. Valmy as subjective drama -- Freudian fundamentals : life, death, and love in El tragaluz -- From the periphery to the center : the forgotten muñeco of El tragaluz -- El misterio de elche as polysemic intertext -- Philosophy and interpretation : the mercantile modernist versus the situated self in El tragaluz -- The uchronian quest for simple truth in El tragaluz -- Foucault on punishment : power and fear in El sueño de la razón -- Deconstructing the soft bottoms in La fundación -- Jungian psychology : masks of mortals in Diálogo secreto -- Perspectival truth and Buero's controversial premise in Diálogo secreto -- Validating the feminine through art and music in Diálogo secreto -- Misión al pueblo desierto : a cultural study ER -