Author: Pierre Corneille
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Judd David Hubert
Publisher: Rookwood Press
ISBN: 9781886365063
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Roy Clement Knight
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389209607
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Corneille virtually founded seventeenth-century French tragedy: Le Cid and the three subsequent tragedies gave the genre its models and much of its theory. Many critics have created a synthetic picture of "Cornelian heroism" by seeing these four plays as representative of all Corneille's work, thus neglecting the sixteen others that followed. Now the tide has turned: scholars are trying to analyse the meaning of Cornielle's work with close reference to historical events and political ideas.

Author: O. Classe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964367
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 930

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Author: Robert J. Nelson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512804754
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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With rare exceptions, English and American views of Corneille derive from that documentary approach that is more interested in a writer's times than in the writer. Perhaps more than any other major French writer, Corneille must be resurrected from the mass of documentation that has accumulated about him in nearly three centuries of criticism. Dr. Nelson's study, in line with much recent French criticism, concentrates primarily on the canon. The first book in English on this major European dramatist in over fifty years, this fresh return to the plays them­ selves presents a Corneille more varied and more flexible than the sententious figure passed down through decades of inordinate critical emphasis on the famed tetralogy (Le Cid, Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte). Thus, there is not only the familiar genereux of these plays, but also the damoiseau of the early comedies, the ambitieux of the middle plays, and the amoureux of the last plays. Through rigorous attention to the values of both the hero and the world Corneille creates about him in each of the thirty-two plays, Robert J. Nelson demonstrates in detail what some perceptive critics have hinted at in recent Corneille criticism: that Corneille's vision is not tragic. The drama of "The Father of French Tragedy" is, to be sure, "tragic" in the externals of composition (five acts, alexandrines, the fate of noble figures, etc.), but its essence is something else. What this something else is, and that even in our age of extreme deference to the "tragic vision" it in no way diminishes Corneille's stature, are the final arguments of this original study. Corneille: His Heroes and Their Worlds will appeal to all those with an interest in French Drama, as well as those studying the application of modern critical techniques to classical authors. Students of theory of tragedy will also find this new look at Corneillian "tragedy" stimulating.

Author:
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738172490
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Author: H. Gaston Hall
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815622758
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: John D. Lyons
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557531605
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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"This reassessment of French classical ideas about tragedy will be valuable to students and scholars of French literature, drama, and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Lawrence Melville Riddle
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Pierre 1606-1684 Corneille
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014040763
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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