Las Batuecas, Las Hurdes and the Spanish Crypt

Las Batuecas;Las Hurdes;cultural studies;Spanish

Kozey, Christopher LeonardEgginton, William ;

Johns Hopkins University

关键词: Las Batuecas;    Las Hurdes;    cultural studies;    Spanish;   

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瑞士|英语

来源: JOHNS HOPKINS DSpace Repository

【 摘 要 】

My dissertation analyzes the Las Batuecas/Las Hurdes region’s unique function in Spanish culture from the turn of the 17th century to the present day. Due to its geographical isolation, Las Batuecas/Las Hurdes was once believed to house a people lost in time, ignorant of the world outside their valley home—the ;;discovery” of this mythologized space was dramatized by Lope de Vega in the early 1600s, and ever since then, Las Batuecas and Las Hurdes have captivated the imaginations of authors, artists and audiences in Spain and abroad. By studying the valley’s depiction in a variety of cultural modes and historical contexts—the Baroque stage, the pages of the Semanario Pintoresco Español, photographic reportage of Alfonso XIII’s royal tour of the region, a polemical documentary—my analysis demonstrates that the valley was repeatedly cast as a crypt space, or a site of inscrutable presence in an epistemologically uncertain world.