Author: Virginia MerrillsPublisher:
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Category : Women in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Women Characters of Corneille and Racine
Author: Virginia MerrillsPublisher:
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Category : Women in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Female Heroism in the Works of Corneille and Racine
Author: Dana LunguPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004548556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This study breaks with traditional readings in terms of tragic model and tragic hero in the works of Racine and Corneille. It departs from the critical tradition of examining the tragic hero as an isolated figure, defined by autonomy; it approaches the behaviour of Médée, Clytemnestre, and Phèdre from a relational perspective. It argues that these female characters belong to the tragic hero category, hold valid and valuable ethical positions and deserve to be treated as equal to their male counterparts. It also redefines the way we look at the tragic dynamic. The characters are no longer antagonists but inadvertent collaborators working towards the tragic outcome in order to satisfy desires and beliefs about themselves and the world that are deeply rooted in their psyche. This book shows that alternative interpretations of the behaviour of Médée, Clytemnestre and Phèdre can be obtained and must be obtained by applying modern methodologies in order to challenge the biased readings from the past and to see these characters in a new light.
The Women Characters in the Tragedies of Pierre Corneille ...
Author: Alice Virginia VidettoPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Characters of Racine and Corneille
Author: Laura Christine StumpPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Men and Women of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Arsène HoussayeSamuel Beckett's Library
Author: Dirk Van HullePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107001269
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of Samuel Beckett's personal library.
The Moral History of Women
Author: Ernest LegouvéPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Three Plays of Racine
Author: Jean RacinePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226150772
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Describes the planning, building, and use of canals in nineteenth-century America and their impact on the history, economy, and westward expansion of the United States.
Five Classic French Plays
Author: Wallace FowliePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486167879
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Treasury of theatrical masterpieces includes Corneille's The Cid, Racine's Phaedra, Molière’s The Intellectual Ladies, Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance, and Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville. Translations, introductions by noted scholar Wallace Fowlie.
Corneille's Tragedies
Author: Roy Clement KnightPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389209607
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
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.