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In the wake of Medea : neoclassical theater and the arts of destruction
Title
In the wake of Medea : neoclassical theater and the arts of destruction / Juliette Cherbuliez.
ISBN
9780823287826
0823287823
9780823287819
0823287815
9780823287833
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
ix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer literary and philosophical history from Ovid to Pasolini"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 02, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Coming after Violence in Literature
Medea, a Manifesto
Surface Selves: Médée, 1634
The Medean Presence: Violence Unmade and Remade
Staying Power: Performing the Present Moment of Tragedy
Flying toward Futurity: Spectacularity and Suspension
Medea Overlived: The Future of Catastrophe
Epilogue: The Cosmopolitics of Literature
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