Racine : from ancient myth to tragic modernity / Mitchell Greenberg.

Author/creator Greenberg, Mitchell, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxvi, 287 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: spectacle, myth, sacrifice : Racinian tragedy and the origins of modernity -- La Thébaïde : politics and monstrous origins -- Andromaque : myth and melancholy -- Britannicus : power, perversion, and paranoia -- Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate : oriental Oedipus -- Iphigénie : sacrifice and sovereignty -- Phèdre (et Hippolyte) : taboo, transgression, and the birth of democracy? -- Esther, Athalie : religion, and revolution in Racine's heavenly city.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009046589
ISBN9780816660834 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0816660832 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816660841 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0816660840 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ1905 .G68 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold