Birth marks: the tragedy of primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille, and Jean Racine

"Birth Marks reexamines the body of French classical tragedy from the perspective of recent theories about the sibling bond and, in particular, birth order. Through a study of the evolution of inheritance issues in seventeen tragedies written over half a century by the Corneille brothers, Pierr...

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1. Verfasser: Goodkin, Richard E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 2000
Schriftenreihe:New cultural studies
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Zusammenfassung:"Birth Marks reexamines the body of French classical tragedy from the perspective of recent theories about the sibling bond and, in particular, birth order. Through a study of the evolution of inheritance issues in seventeen tragedies written over half a century by the Corneille brothers, Pierre and Thomas, and by Jean Racine, the book questions the pervasive assumption that classical tragedy, a form written for the aristocracy, is informed exclusively by an aristocratic ethic." "Instead, a fresh reading of both canonical and noncanonical texts demonstrates that even the most formal body of literature produced by French classical writers expresses a conflict between a declining aristocratic hierarchy based on inherited privilege and a rising capitalistic ethic that favors competition and enterprise."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:XI, 281 S.
ISBN:0812235509