Subjectivity and subjugation in seventeenth-century drama and prose: the family romance of French classicism

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. It shows how major writers of the Classical period (Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lafayette)...

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1. Verfasser: Greenberg, Mitchell 1946- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1992
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in French 36
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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. It shows how major writers of the Classical period (Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lafayette) elaborate a new subject in and through their representations of the family, and argues that the family serves as the mediating locus of a patriarchal ideology of sexual and political containment. Most importantly, it asks why the theatre became the privileged form of representation in this state, and why this theatre concentrates almost exclusively on family conflict. Professor Greenberg argues that the narrative of oedipal sexuality and subjugation central to this new literary canon reflected the conflicting social, political and economic forces that were shifting European society away from the universe of the Renaissance and guiding it towards the 'transparency' of Classical representation
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (240 pages)
ISBN:9780511553936
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511553936

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