Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form - Couverture souple

Pocock, Gordon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521098149 ISBN 13 : 9780521098144

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This study highlights that both Corneille and Racine were living writers, struggling to create developing forms within the strait-jacket of neo-classical decorum.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Corneille and Racine may seem like marble monuments of an unchanging typical classicism. Mr Pocock is concerned to show that each of these great dramatists was a living writer, struggling to create developing forms and that the rules of neo-classical decorum were a strait-jacket to them. We can see in their writings a hesitation between poetic drama which creates its own forms from within and naturalistic drama which opts for truth to common life and a medium. In an interesting and comprehensive examination of the two authors, Mr Pocock shows the range of Coneille's achievement, and explains that a good seal which had been dismissed as decadence or incompetence was the result of his casting about for new forms. A section on Racine shows him opting for a deepening mode of drama which rejects naturalism and is implicitly subversive of neo-classical rules.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521098149
• ISBN 13: 9780521098144
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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