Author: Charles Lacy LOCKERT
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Studies in French-Classical Tragedy
Author: Charles Lacy LOCKERT
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Studies in French
Author: Lacy Lockert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758110169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758110169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Studies in French-classical Tragedy
Author: Lacy Lockert
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826510495
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This unique volume contains studies not only of Corneille's and Racine's tragedies but also of the best work of the lesser French-classical tragic dramatists, too generally neglected, to whom more than half of the book is devoted. Its author brings to his tasks of presentation, criticism, and appraisal a wider acquaintance, perhaps, with the drama of many lands and times than anyone who has previously written at any considerable length on the subject of French-classical tragedy. To the desirable perspective thus obtained, he joins an appreciation of good plays of every type, without prejudice either for or against any type of drama. Numerous, often lengthy, quoted passages (with an English verse translation accompanying the French in every case) exemplify the achievement and exhibit the qualities of the dramas and dramatists discussed. That portion of the author's critical work in this field which has already appeared, as introductions in his volumes of translated plays, has been much appreciated, as witness the following brief excerpts from reviews of those books: "The plays...are discussed with insight and enthusiasm."--(London) Notes and Queries. "Refreshingly original and yet free from specious pleading or naïve enthusiasm."--Chattanooga Times. "Thoughtful, discerning appraisals."--Seventeenth Century News. "An excellent critical introduction."--The Library Journal. "A judicious introduction."--Arthur Knodel in The Personalist. "The very best interpretative treatment of Corneille that has appeared."--C. Maxwell Lancaster.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826510495
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This unique volume contains studies not only of Corneille's and Racine's tragedies but also of the best work of the lesser French-classical tragic dramatists, too generally neglected, to whom more than half of the book is devoted. Its author brings to his tasks of presentation, criticism, and appraisal a wider acquaintance, perhaps, with the drama of many lands and times than anyone who has previously written at any considerable length on the subject of French-classical tragedy. To the desirable perspective thus obtained, he joins an appreciation of good plays of every type, without prejudice either for or against any type of drama. Numerous, often lengthy, quoted passages (with an English verse translation accompanying the French in every case) exemplify the achievement and exhibit the qualities of the dramas and dramatists discussed. That portion of the author's critical work in this field which has already appeared, as introductions in his volumes of translated plays, has been much appreciated, as witness the following brief excerpts from reviews of those books: "The plays...are discussed with insight and enthusiasm."--(London) Notes and Queries. "Refreshingly original and yet free from specious pleading or naïve enthusiasm."--Chattanooga Times. "Thoughtful, discerning appraisals."--Seventeenth Century News. "An excellent critical introduction."--The Library Journal. "A judicious introduction."--Arthur Knodel in The Personalist. "The very best interpretative treatment of Corneille that has appeared."--C. Maxwell Lancaster.
Introduction to French Classical Tragedy
Author: C.J. Gossip
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349045187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349045187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Fortune and Fatality
Author: Desmond Hosford
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144381492X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
As an aesthetic notion and dramatic genre, tragedy has enjoyed a privileged place in French culture, particularly during the early modern period when debates over its nature and philosophy reflected fascination with a style whose fundamental principles were drawn from ancient Greek sources. Through the works of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine, routinely cited for an alleged regularity of form and content exemplifying the academic notion of French Classicism, tragedy has grounded the French literary canon. Because of its place at the heart of canonical French literary studies, tragedy’s traditionally prescribed boundaries and interpretations have rarely been questioned. Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France challenges conventional notions of the nature and function of tragedy and the ends to which philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic were appropriated during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The scope of material explored in this volume will be of interest not only to scholars and students of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, but to those working in areas such as theater, gender studies, aesthetics, history, religion, philosophy, classics, and cultural studies.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144381492X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
As an aesthetic notion and dramatic genre, tragedy has enjoyed a privileged place in French culture, particularly during the early modern period when debates over its nature and philosophy reflected fascination with a style whose fundamental principles were drawn from ancient Greek sources. Through the works of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine, routinely cited for an alleged regularity of form and content exemplifying the academic notion of French Classicism, tragedy has grounded the French literary canon. Because of its place at the heart of canonical French literary studies, tragedy’s traditionally prescribed boundaries and interpretations have rarely been questioned. Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France challenges conventional notions of the nature and function of tragedy and the ends to which philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic were appropriated during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The scope of material explored in this volume will be of interest not only to scholars and students of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, but to those working in areas such as theater, gender studies, aesthetics, history, religion, philosophy, classics, and cultural studies.
Orientalism in French Classical Drama
Author: Michèle Longino
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521025171
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine; Le Cid, Médée, and Le bourgeois gentilhomme among others. She offers a consideration of the role the staging of the near Orient played in shaping a sense of French colonial identity. Drawing on histories, travel journals, memoirs and correspondence, and bringing together literary and historical concerns, Longino considers these dramatisations in the context of French-Ottoman relations at the time of their production.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521025171
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine; Le Cid, Médée, and Le bourgeois gentilhomme among others. She offers a consideration of the role the staging of the near Orient played in shaping a sense of French colonial identity. Drawing on histories, travel journals, memoirs and correspondence, and bringing together literary and historical concerns, Longino considers these dramatisations in the context of French-Ottoman relations at the time of their production.
Royal DisClosure
Author: Harriet Amy Stone
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780917786570
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Chiefly treats Corneille and Racine.
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780917786570
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Chiefly treats Corneille and Racine.
An Introduction to the French Classical Drama
Author: Eleanor Frances Jourdain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
French Classical Tragedy
Author: Henry Thomas Barnwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780704412361
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780704412361
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Hellenic Whispers
Author: Susanna Phillippo
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783034308519
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. The text explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptations, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators and earlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceived of themselves as doing.
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783034308519
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. The text explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptations, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators and earlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceived of themselves as doing.