Homage to Paul Bénichou

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Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780917786983
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Book Synopsis Homage to Paul Bénichou by : Sylvie Romanowski

Download or read book Homage to Paul Bénichou written by Sylvie Romanowski and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Corneille's Performative Metaphors

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Publisher : Rookwood Press
ISBN 13 : 9781886365063
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Book Synopsis Corneille's Performative Metaphors by : Judd David Hubert

Download or read book Corneille's Performative Metaphors written by Judd David Hubert and published by Rookwood Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317098978
Total Pages : 255 pages
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Book Synopsis Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France by : Amy Wygant

Download or read book Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France written by Amy Wygant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the previously disparate fields of historical witchcraft, reception history, poetics, and psychoanalysis, this innovative study shows how the glamour of the historical witch, a spell that she cast, was set on a course, over a span of three hundred years from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, to become a generally broadcast glamour of appearance. Something that a woman does, that is, became something that she has. The antique heroine Medea, witch and barbarian, infamous poisoner, infanticide, regicide, scourge of philanderers, and indefatigable traveller, serves as the vehicle of this development. Revived on the stage of modernity by La Péruse in the sixteenth century, Corneille in the seventeenth, and the operatic composer Cherubini in the eighteenth, her stagecraft and her witchcraft combine, author Amy Wygant argues, to stun her audience into identifying with her magic and making it their own. In contrast to previous studies which have relied upon contemporary printed sources in order to gauge audience participation in and reaction to early modern theater, Wygant argues that psychoanalytic thought about the behavior of groups can be brought to bear on the question of "what happened" when the early modern witch was staged. This cross-disciplinary study reveals the surprising early modern trajectory of our contemporary obsession with magic. Medea figures the movement of culture in history, and in the mirror of the witch on the stage, a mirror both appealing and appalling, our own cultural performances are reflected. It concludes with an analysis of Diderot's claim that the historical process itself is magical, and with the moment in Revolutionary France when the slight and fragile body of the golden-throated singer, Julie-Angélique Scio, became a Medea for modernity: not a witch or a child-murderess, but, as all the press reviews insist, a woman.

Kingdom of Disorder

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Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557531605
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book Kingdom of Disorder written by John D. Lyons and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This reassessment of French classical ideas about tragedy will be valuable to students and scholars of French literature, drama, and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.

Tragic Passages

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Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838756843
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Book Synopsis Tragic Passages by : Roland Racevskis

Download or read book Tragic Passages written by Roland Racevskis and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a theoretically informed reading of Racine's nine secular tragedies, from La Thebaide (1664) to Phedre (1677). This study focuses on literary/theatrical constructions of space, time, and identity.

Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism

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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838755488
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Book Synopsis Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism by : Ziad Elmarsafy

Download or read book Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism written by Ziad Elmarsafy and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of freedom by reading the works of Corneille, Pascal, and Racine as political theories in the guise of literature. Within this framework, a certain model quickly becomes apparent, namely that of absolute sovereignty as the guarantor of freedom. The three writers under consideration share the view that freedom is ensured only by absolute authority rather than the absence of such authority. From Corneille, who modulates freedom through an erotic link to the monarch as a means through which the glorious individual is brought into the state's fold, to Pascal, who traces the liberation of the will via absolute submission to God, to Racine, for whom absolute submission to the most Christian king is the only route to political and personal salvation, Elmarsafy studies a politics of taking charge that differs markedly form the contemporary orthodoy that privileges individual freedom.

Interpreting the Musical Past

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195346505
Total Pages : 321 pages
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Book Synopsis Interpreting the Musical Past by : Katharine Ellis

Download or read book Interpreting the Musical Past written by Katharine Ellis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the French early music revival gives us a vivid sense of how music's cultural meanings were contested in the nineteenth century. It surveys the main patterns of revivalist activity while also providing in-depth studies of repertories stretching from Adam de la Halle to Rameau.

The Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz

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Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823361503
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Book Synopsis The Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz by : Sylvia P. Vance

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Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521801881
Total Pages : 426 pages
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Book Synopsis Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 by : Downing A. Thomas

Download or read book Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 written by Downing A. Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study recognizes the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture.

Questioning Racinian Tragedy

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807892855
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Book Synopsis Questioning Racinian Tragedy by : John Campbell

Download or read book Questioning Racinian Tragedy written by John Campbell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting significant differences between the individual tragedies of Racine and the many current notions of what "Racinian tragedy" is deemed to imply, John Campbell explores the identity and meaning of the modern "Racine." He asks if any one critical parad