Christian Social Reformers
Author : Tina Saji
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9788183240086
Author : Tina Saji
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9788183240086
Author : Robert McBride
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349036005
Author : Elizabeth McPike
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 1925
Category : French drama (Tragedy)
ISBN :
Author : Rebecca Bushnell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405192461
A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity Features 28 essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy Broad in its scope and ambition, it considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history Offers a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy and demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades
Author : Richard Adolf Ploetz
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1878
Category : French language
ISBN :
Author : Robert J. Nelson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1512804754
With rare exceptions, English and American views of Corneille derive from that documentary approach that is more interested in a writer's times than in the writer. Perhaps more than any other major French writer, Corneille must be resurrected from the mass of documentation that has accumulated about him in nearly three centuries of criticism. Dr. Nelson's study, in line with much recent French criticism, concentrates primarily on the canon. The first book in English on this major European dramatist in over fifty years, this fresh return to the plays them selves presents a Corneille more varied and more flexible than the sententious figure passed down through decades of inordinate critical emphasis on the famed tetralogy (Le Cid, Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte). Thus, there is not only the familiar genereux of these plays, but also the damoiseau of the early comedies, the ambitieux of the middle plays, and the amoureux of the last plays. Through rigorous attention to the values of both the hero and the world Corneille creates about him in each of the thirty-two plays, Robert J. Nelson demonstrates in detail what some perceptive critics have hinted at in recent Corneille criticism: that Corneille's vision is not tragic. The drama of "The Father of French Tragedy" is, to be sure, "tragic" in the externals of composition (five acts, alexandrines, the fate of noble figures, etc.), but its essence is something else. What this something else is, and that even in our age of extreme deference to the "tragic vision" it in no way diminishes Corneille's stature, are the final arguments of this original study. Corneille: His Heroes and Their Worlds will appeal to all those with an interest in French Drama, as well as those studying the application of modern critical techniques to classical authors. Students of theory of tragedy will also find this new look at Corneillian "tragedy" stimulating.
Author : Mary Jo Muratore
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780917786846
Author : J. S. Street
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 1983-08-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521245370
This 1983 book is a comprehensive study of the French sacred theatre at the crucial transition from medieval to modern conception of theatre.
Author : Mitchell Greenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 135015508X
The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social and economic changes that altered European society's cultural life. Tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s. The dominance of France's military and cultural prestige during this period is reflected in the important, almost exclusive, space dedicated in this volume to the French stage. This book covers the tragedies of France's two greatest playwrights - Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and Jean Racine (1639-99) - which would dominate not only the French stage but, through translations and adaptations, became the model of tragic theater across Europe, finding imitators in England (Dryden), Italy (Alfieri) and as far afield as Russia. This dominance continued well into the 18th century with the triumph of Voltaire's tragedies. This volume also examines how the writings of Diderot and Lessing changed the direction of theatre and how after the Revolution, in the writings of Goethe, Shiller, Hegel, tragedy and the tragic were reimagined and became the sign of European modernity. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Author : Pierre Corneille
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 1853
Category :
ISBN :