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Walter Benjamin's hypothetical French Trauerspiel / [Hall Bjornstad and Katherine Ibbett, special editors].
LIBRA DC1 .Y3 no.124
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Yale French studies ; no. 124.
- Yale French studies, 0044-0078 ; number 124
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684.
- French drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- French drama.
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Benjamin, Walter.
- French drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
- French drama (Tragedy).
- German drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
- German drama (Tragedy).
- Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684--Criticism and interpretation.
- Corneille, Pierre.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 173 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Editors' preface: Calling on the Grand Siècle with Walter Benjamin / Hall Bjornstad and Katherine Ibbett
- The pleasures of hypothesis : Benjamin and the provisional French Trauerspiel / Emma Gilby
- "Giving voice to the feeling of his age" : Benjamn, Pascal, and the Trauerspiel of the king without diversion / Hall Bjornstad
- Material fatality : props and the baroque drama of chance / John D. Lyons
- The crooked crown : reading Le Cid after La Mariane / Hélène Merlin-Kajman
- Melancholy Racine : Benjamin's Trauerspiel and literary Jews / Susan Maslan
- Noise, meaning, and music in the Racinian Trauerspiel / Eric Méchoulan
- Actor, act, and action in Benjamin's French Baroque / Christopher Braider
- Classicism and the creaturely : Pierre Corneille's Polyeucte / Katherine Ibbett
- The dramaturgy of sovereignty and the performance of mourning : the case of Corneille's Horace / Claude Haas
- La foi des traités : Baroque history, international law, and the politics of reading in Corneille's Rodogune / Timothy Hampton
- Afterword: Re-animating the Gegenstück, or the survival of the French Trauerspiel in the German Baroque / Jane O. Newman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780300194203
- 030019420X
- OCLC:
- 862134807
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