In the Wake of Medea : : Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction /

In the Wake of Medea : : Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction / / Juliette Cherbuliez.

In the Wake of Medea examines the violence of seventeenth-century French political dramas. French tragedy has traditionally been taken to be a passionless, cerebral genre that refused all forms of violence. This book explores the rhetorical, literary, and performance strategies through which violenc...

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Cherbuliez, Juliette,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 19
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Translations and Names
  • Introduction: Coming after Violence in Literature
  • Medea, a Manifesto
  • 1. Surface Selves: Médée, 1634
  • 2. The Medean Presence: Violence Unmade and Remade
  • 3. Staying Power: Performing the Present Moment of Tragedy
  • 4. Flying toward Futurity: Spectacularity and Suspension
  • 5. Medea Overlived: The Future of Catastrophe
  • Epilogue: The Cosmopolitics of Literature
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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