Questioning Racinian TragedyNoting 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 parad |
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John Campbell. INTRODUCTION : " RACINIAN TRAGEDY " OME years before Roland Barthes wrote his famous book on SRacine , he had sought , appropriately enough in Mythologies , to dispel the notion that " Racine " had any kind of neutral ...
John Campbell. INTRODUCTION : " RACINIAN TRAGEDY " OME years before Roland Barthes wrote his famous book on SRacine , he had sought , appropriately enough in Mythologies , to dispel the notion that " Racine " had any kind of neutral ...
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... Racinian tragedy " even permit a con- vincing interpretation of the complexities inherent in any one par- ticular play ? And do the various tragedies , considered together , constitute a body of work methodologically and ideologically ...
... Racinian tragedy " even permit a con- vincing interpretation of the complexities inherent in any one par- ticular play ? And do the various tragedies , considered together , constitute a body of work methodologically and ideologically ...
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... Racinian tragic vision " can easily be identified in Racine's tragedies . It does so through an examination of the quite distinct plotting strategies in Berenice , Mithridate , and Athalie . INTRODUCTION : “ RACINIAN TRAGEDY ” 15.
... Racinian tragic vision " can easily be identified in Racine's tragedies . It does so through an examination of the quite distinct plotting strategies in Berenice , Mithridate , and Athalie . INTRODUCTION : “ RACINIAN TRAGEDY ” 15.
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... Racine " more com- pletely and profoundly than the other tragedies , and yet paradoxi- cally itself seen as " exceptional . " It considers the advantages of viewing Phedre first and foremost as a play , as a tragic action driven by a ...
... Racine " more com- pletely and profoundly than the other tragedies , and yet paradoxi- cally itself seen as " exceptional . " It considers the advantages of viewing Phedre first and foremost as a play , as a tragic action driven by a ...
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... Racine's tragedies . Here the only plea that can be entered in mitigation is that one or two useful things have been actually been written since La Bruyere made this observation three centuries ago about the attempt to write anything on ...
... Racine's tragedies . Here the only plea that can be entered in mitigation is that one or two useful things have been actually been written since La Bruyere made this observation three centuries ago about the attempt to write anything on ...
Contents
IV | 37 |
V | 38 |
VI | 45 |
VII | 49 |
VIII | 56 |
IX | 65 |
XI | 71 |
XII | 78 |
XXIX | 151 |
XXXI | 156 |
XXXII | 157 |
XXXIII | 163 |
XXXIV | 172 |
XXXV | 176 |
XXXVI | 180 |
XXXVII | 186 |
XIII | 82 |
XIV | 85 |
XV | 87 |
XVI | 91 |
XVII | 106 |
XVIII | 109 |
XIX | 115 |
XX | 118 |
XXI | 120 |
XXII | 126 |
XXIII | 128 |
XXIV | 133 |
XXV | 135 |
XXVI | 140 |
XXVII | 143 |
XXVIII | 145 |
XXXVIII | 191 |
XXXIX | 194 |
XL | 198 |
XLI | 205 |
XLII | 207 |
XLIII | 211 |
XLIV | 215 |
XLV | 218 |
XLVI | 222 |
XLVII | 233 |
XLVIII | 238 |
XLIX | 241 |
L | 243 |
LI | 245 |
LII | 254 |
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