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Questioning Racinian Tragedy by John Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, John, 1947 February 18-
- Series:
- North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 281.
- North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures ; Number 281
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racine, Jean, 1639-1699--Criticism and interpretation.
- Tragedy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Noting significant differences between the individual tragedies of Racine and the many current notions of what "Racinian tragedy" is deemed to imply, John Campbell explores the identity and meaning of the modern "Racine." He asks if any one critical paradigm, propounded to explain what is commonly called "Racinian tragedy," even permits a.
- Contents:
- Cover
- QUESTIONING RACINIAN TRAGEDY
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFATORY NOTE: REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION: "RACINIAN TRAGEDY
- 1. FROM THE PARTICULAR TO THE PARTICULAR: PLOTS AND TIME
- 'The life and soul of tragedy'
- Creating a time-machine: Bérénice
- Play or poetry?
- A plot at work
- A sense of time
- Plot as suspension: Mithridate
- Suspense and suspension
- A flight in time
- The uses of time: Athalie
- The Unity of Time
- The dimensions of time
- 2. EXCEPTIONS AND EXPECTATIONS: "RACINE" AND BAJAZET
- A problem play
- Credibility and coherence
- Strange roles
- A "Racinian" language?
- Expectations
- 3. "PESSIMISM" AND "THE RACINIAN TRAGIC VISION
- Pessimism" and "tragic vision
- Britannicus: proof positive of "pessimism"?
- A moral dimension?
- Tragedy between "optimism" and "pessimism": Iphigénie
- The tragic plot
- A family drama?
- And the Gods?
- A happy end?
- 4. THE GOD QUESTION
- Jansenist tragedy?
- Using the evidence: Andromaque
- The Jansenism of 'Racine": a case in favor
- The Jansenism of "Racine": a case against
- Imitation and pleasure
- God at Work? Athalie
- The implications of plot
- Identities and tragedy
- What recognition?
- Despair?
- A sense of God?
- 5. THE PROBLEM WITH PHÈDRE
- An ordinary play?
- Phèdre and Phèdre
- Plot, after all
- What truth?
- Fatalism, dependency, responsibility
- The Gods
- The problem of evil
- Final clarity?
- Uncertainties
- CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-275).
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4696-3927-0
- OCLC:
- 1080551732
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