Juliette Cherbuliez

In the Wake of Medea

Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780823287819
• ISBN-10: 0823287815
• Artikelnr.: 57577380

Autorenporträt

Juliette Cherbuliez

Inhaltsangabe

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