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Playing the Martyr: Scenes Francophones

Autor Christopher Semk
en Limba Engleză Hardback – feb 2017

Playing the Martyr is a book about the interplay between theater and religion in early modern France. Challenging the standard narrative of modernity as a process of increased secularization Christopher Semk demonstrates the centrality of religious thought and practices to the development of neoclassical poetics. Engaging with a broad corpus of religious plays, poetic treatises, devotional literature, and contemporary theory, Semk shows that religion was a vital interlocutor in early modern discussions concerning the definition of verisimilitude, the nature and purpose of spectacle, the mechanics of acting, and the position of the spectator. Well researched and persuasively argued, Playing the Martyr makes the case for a more complicated approach to the relationship between religion and literature, namely, one that does not treat religion as a theme deployed within literary works, but as an active player in literary invention. Indeed, it makes the case for a serious reconsideration of the role that religion plays in the development of modern, secular literary forms.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781611488036
ISBN-10: 1611488036
Pagini: 198
Dimensiuni: 239 x 161 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Seria Scenes Francophones


Cuprins

Acknowledgments Introduction: A Christian Melpomene? Chapter 1: The Separation of Church and Stage Chapter 2: The Spectacle of Martyrdom and the Spectacle of the Stage Chapter 3: ¿Ex histrionis martyr factus:¿ Genesius, Acting, and Martyrdom Chapter 4: Polyeucte, martyr and Corneille¿s Sacramental Poetics Epilogue: Theater and Theology at the Threshold of Modernity Bibliography Index

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By Christopher Semk

Descriere

Playing the Martyr is the first English-language book devoted to the productive encounter between theater and religion in early modern France. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Playing the Martyr investigates how early modern playwrights and critics engaged with religion both on stage and off in order to reflect on the nature of theater.