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JUAN PERON: MAN AND MYTH
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THE PERON NOVEL, by Tomas Eloy Martinez; translated by Asa
Zatz. Pantheon. 357 pp. $19.95.
General Juan Domingo Peron would have appreciated the paradox.
In life, he achieved mythical status. As the central character
in Tomas Eloy Martinez's brilliant "The Peron Novel," a chilling
tale of power, decline and madness, he becomes human again.
Peron -- "the Leader, the General, the Deposed Dictator, the
Macho, You-Know-Who, the Escaped Tyrant, the Nation's First Worker,
Eva Peron's Widower, the Exile, the One Who Had A Piano In Caracas.
God knows what other things he might be ...
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Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...rather daringly) on James I's Basilikon Doron (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 146...issues and concerns of the three Basilikon Doron Emblem Books: Peacham's relationship with James 1, his use of his Basilikon Doron, his ad
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The English Emblem Tradition: Vol. V: Henry Peacham's Manuscript Emblem Books.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...manuscripts based (perhaps rather daringly) on James I's Basilikon Doron (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 146, BL MSS Royal...grows out of, the issues and concerns of the three Basilikon Doron Emblem Books: Peacham's relationship with James...
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Deviceful Settings: The English Renaissance Emblem and its Contexts.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...later that of Prince Henry, for whom James wrote Basilikon Doron. Young shows that Peacham's three manuscript emblem books are related not only to James's Basilikon Doron, but also (especially in case of the heraldic emblems...
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The Mental World of Jacobean Court.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...different perspectives. Two of these are worth mentioning here. Jenny Wormald explores the Scottish setting for Basilikon Doron and The Trew Law of Free Monarchies and argues persuasively that James, in the tradition of Marcus Aurelius and King...
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Shakespeare and Child's Play: Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Bulletin
; ...Shakespeare's recent performance history. Early modern texts, including school books, prayer books and James I's Basilikon Doron (1599), and performance practices, such as the apprentice player system and royal pageantry, are examined alongside...
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Ancient rituals bow to modern manners
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...mannered recluse and a sodomite, he was also hailed as a poet and thinker, the author of learned tomes such as the Basilikon Doron. As was common throughout polite society in Europe, men bowed before the king and their wives curtsied, and woe...
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Bringing the dead to life
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...gods' representatives upon earth. The closest parallel might be with the theories of James VI and I expounded in Basilikon Doron, a book which opens with the sonnet: God gives not Kings the style of Gods in vaine For on his throne his scepter...
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England's Internal Colonies: Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...terms of borderlands and the vagrants and gypsies who lived there. Here, Netzloff makes use of texts like James's Basilikon Doron (1599) and Ben Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphosed (1621) to explore identity and boundaries. Chapter 5 discusses...
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The Performing Heir in Jonson's Jacobean Masques.(playwright Ben Jonson)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...family to the patriarchal king. The quintessential proof of the Stuart analogy between father and monarch is James's Basilikon Doron, the record of his "fatherly authoritie" published for the nation, but originally written as advice to four...
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The travels of ideology: Niccolo Machiavelli at the court of James VI.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...in 1592-93, or it might have been undertaken as part of Fowler's involvement with James's composition of the Basilikon Doron. The last section of the paper analyses Fowler's dedication of the work to the Laird of Buccleuch, and the circumstances...
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