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Homenaje a Kurt y Roswitha Reichenberger: Estudios sobre Calderón y el teatro de la edad de oro (review)

structs traditional readings of this drama by problematizing the notion of "absolute" truth or justice. "Reception" theory is used to examine the historical, cultural, and literary context of Calderón's Cada uno para sí in chapter 7, which is divided into three sections. The first examines the different filters—copyists, printers, stage-managers, actors-that intervene in the process of literary transmission and reception. The second uses Jauss's "horizon of expectations" to speculate upon Calderón's own intervention in that process in the form of his later reading and rewriting of the play. The third section applies Jauss's concept metaphorically to the communicative universe represented within the drama. A brief concluding section recapitulates the critical methods employed, summarizes the particular aspects they have emphasized, and ends by positing an ideally open and dialectical relation between theory and practice, as made explicit by the book's title. An appendix contains brief plot summaries of the dramas studied. The endnotes contribute greatly to this study's "readability," for they are minimal, yet always useful in clarifying and contextualizing. The strengths of this study are its explicit use of contemporary theory to elucidate the text (and not the other way around), the variety of approaches utilized, the open-ended, evolutionary quality of those approaches and of the readings that they enable, and finally—and perhaps most importantly—the logic, clarity, and precision with which the arguments are developed. The discussions opening each chapter serve as useful introductions to concepts with which the general reader might be unfamiliar; yet the practical applications of those concepts to specific dramas open exciting new ground for those readers already well acquainted with both the dramas and the theories. Larson's book is a most welcome addition to the growing corpus of sensitive and intelligent reconsiderations of the comedia.