Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose - The Family Romance of French Classicism

Informationen zum Autor Mitchell Greenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of several books on seventeenth-century French literature and culture. Greenberg uses contemporary critical theories, particularly Freudian and post-Freudian approaches, in the interpretation of early modern texts. Klappentext This book analyses the relation between an emergent modern subjectivity in seventeenth-century French literature and the contemporaneous evolution of the absolutist state. Zusammenfassung This 1992 book analyses the relation between an emergent modern subjectivity in seventeenth-century French literature! particularly in dramatic works! and the contemporaneous evolution of the absolutist state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. L'Astrée and androgyny; 2. The grateful dead: Corneille's tragedy and the subject of history; 3. Passion play: Jeanne des Anges, devils, hysteria and the incorporation of the classical subject; 4. Rodogune: sons and lovers; 5. Molière's Tartuffe and the scandal of insight; 6. Racine's children; 7. 'Visions are seldom all they seem': La Princesse de Clèves and the end of Classical illusions; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Mitchell Greenberg, Greenberg Mitchell
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521032308
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03230-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French; Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; French, France, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays and playwrights