Cherbuliez In the Wake of Medea

Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8784-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cherbuliez, Juliette

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Translations and Names ix

Introduction: Coming after Violence in Literature 1

Medea, a Manifesto 37

1. Surface Selves: Médée, 1634 53

2. The Medean Presence: Violence Unmade and Remade 94

3. Staying Power: Performing the Present Moment of Tragedy 120

4. Flying toward Futurity: Spectacularity and Suspension 143

5. Medea Overlived: The Future of Catastrophe 174

Epilogue: The Cosmopolitics of Literature 199

Acknowledgments 207

Notes 209

Bibliography 227

Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

Cherbuliez Juliette:
Juliette Cherbuliez is Professor of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, and Director of its Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World. She is the author of The Place of Exile: Leisure Literature and the Limits of Absolutism (Bucknell, 2005).