Racine : from ancient myth to tragic modernity / Mitchell Greenberg.

• Introduction: spectacle, myth, sacrifice : Racinian tragedy and the origins of modernity -- La Thébaïde : politics and monstrous origins -- Andromaque : myth and melancholy -- Britannicus : power, perversion, and paranoia -- Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate : oriental Oedipus -- Iphigénie : sacrifice and sovereignty -- Phèdre (et Hippolyte) : taboo, transgression, and the birth of democracy? -- Esther, Athalie : religion, and revolution in Racine's heavenly city.

Ämnesord

Franska tragedier  -- historia (sao)

French drama (Tragedy)  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Personnamn

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Racine, Jean

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Gj.02 Litteraturhistoria: franska: dramatik

Gjz Litteraturhistoria: franska: särskilda författare

Klassifikation

PQ1905 (LCC)

842/.4 (DDC)

Gj.02 (kssb/8)

Gjz Racine, Jean (kssb/8)