Tragic passages : Jean Racine's art of the threshold / Roland Racevskis.
Tragic passages : Jean Racine's art of the threshold / Roland Racevskis.
Tragic passages : Jean Racine's art of the threshold / Roland Racevskis.
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Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2008.
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N842.4/69
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English
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221 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
La Thébaïde : from the thresholds of power to the limits of identity -- Alexandre le Grand, or, The ends of the earth -- Generational transition in Andromaque -- Life in an antechamber : time, space, and power in Britannicus -- The tragic time of self in Bérénice -- Bajazet, or, The dagger of Da...
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Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2008.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2008.
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"Tragic Passages presents a new, theoretically informed reading of Racine's nine secular tragedies, from La Thebaide (1664) to Phedre (1677). This detailed study focuses on literary and theatrical constructions of space, time, and identity. Roland Racevskis argues that Racine places his characters in a position of limbo, between the self and the ot...
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Tragic passages : Jean Racine's art of the threshold / Roland Racevskis.
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The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-215) and index.
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N842.4/69
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74VMQpmKNWR3
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9780838756843 (alk. paper)
0838756840 (alk. paper)
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842.4
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991000357529702626
