Racine: From Ancient Myth to Tragic Modernity
Autor Mitchell Greenbergen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2010
A study of all of the major tragedies of Jean Racine, France's preeminent dramatist-and, according to many, its greatest and most representative author-Mitchell Greenberg's work offers an exploration of Racinian tragedy to explain the enigma of the plays' continued fascination.
Greenberg shows how Racine uses myth, in particular the legend of Oedipus, to achieve his emotional power. In the seventeenth-century tragedies of Racine, almost all references to physical activity were banned from the stage. Yet contemporary accounts of the performances describe vivid emotional reactions of the audiences, who were often reduced to tears. Greenberg demonstrates how Racinian tragedy is ideologically linked to Absolutist France's attempt to impose the "order of the One" on its subjects. Racine's tragedies are spaces where the family and the state are one and the same, with the result that sexual desire becomes trapped in a closed, incestuous, and highly formalized universe.
Greenberg ultimately suggests that the politics and sexuality associated with the legend of Oedipus account for our attraction to charismatic leaders and that this confusion of the state with desire explains our continued fascination with these timeless tragedies.
Greenberg shows how Racine uses myth, in particular the legend of Oedipus, to achieve his emotional power. In the seventeenth-century tragedies of Racine, almost all references to physical activity were banned from the stage. Yet contemporary accounts of the performances describe vivid emotional reactions of the audiences, who were often reduced to tears. Greenberg demonstrates how Racinian tragedy is ideologically linked to Absolutist France's attempt to impose the "order of the One" on its subjects. Racine's tragedies are spaces where the family and the state are one and the same, with the result that sexual desire becomes trapped in a closed, incestuous, and highly formalized universe.
Greenberg ultimately suggests that the politics and sexuality associated with the legend of Oedipus account for our attraction to charismatic leaders and that this confusion of the state with desire explains our continued fascination with these timeless tragedies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780816660841
ISBN-10: 0816660840
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10: 0816660840
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
Notă biografică
Mitchell Greenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University.
Cuprins
A Note on Text and Translations
Preface
Introduction: Spectacle, Myth, Sacrifice: Racinian Tragedy and the Origins of Modernity
1. La Thébaïde: Politics and Monstrous Origins
2. Andromaque: Myth and Melancholy
3. Britannicus: Power, Perversion, and Paranoia
4. Oriental Oedipus: Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate
5. Iphigénie: Sacrifice and Sovereignty
6. Phèdre (et Hippolyte): Tabou, Transgression, and the Birth of Democracy?
7. Esther, Athalie: Religion, and Revolution in Racine's Heavenly City
Notes
Index
Preface
Introduction: Spectacle, Myth, Sacrifice: Racinian Tragedy and the Origins of Modernity
1. La Thébaïde: Politics and Monstrous Origins
2. Andromaque: Myth and Melancholy
3. Britannicus: Power, Perversion, and Paranoia
4. Oriental Oedipus: Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate
5. Iphigénie: Sacrifice and Sovereignty
6. Phèdre (et Hippolyte): Tabou, Transgression, and the Birth of Democracy?
7. Esther, Athalie: Religion, and Revolution in Racine's Heavenly City
Notes
Index