Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form - Couverture rigide

Pocock, Gordon

 
9780521201971: Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521201977 ISBN 13 : 9780521201971
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1973

Synopsis

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.

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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.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1973
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521201977
ISBN 13 
9780521201971
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
327
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9780521098144: Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521098149 ISBN 13 :  9780521098144
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010
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