Orientalism in French Classical Drama

Informationen zum Autor Michèle Longino is Associate Professor of French Studies in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Performing Motherhood: The Sévigné Correspondence (1991). Zusammenfassung Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine, and offers a consideration of the role the staging of the near Orient played in shaping a sense of French colonial identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; Orientation; 1. Médée and the traveler-savant; 2. Staging politics: Le Cid; 3. Acculturating the audience: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme; 4. Orienting the world: organizing competition and gendering geography in Tite et Bérénice and Bérénice; 5. The staging of France: Bajazet, Mithridate, communication and the detour; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Mich Le Longino, Mich¿ Longino, Michele Longino, Michele (Duke University Longino
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521025171
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02517-1
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies