In the wake of Medea : neoclassical theater and the arts of destruction /

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Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer literary and philosophical history from Ovid to Pasolini.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cherbuliez, Juliette, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Medea, > consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) > In literature.
Medea, > consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character)
French literature > History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Littérature française > Histoire et critique.
Violence dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
French literature.
Literature.
Medea.
Violence.
seventeenth-century France.
theater.
tragedy.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Coming after Violence in Literature
  • Medea, a Manifesto
  • Surface Selves: Medee, 1634
  • The Medean Presence: Violence Unmade and Remade
  • Staying Power: Performing the Present Moment of Tragedy
  • Flying toward Futurity: Spectacularity and Suspension
  • Medea Overlived: The Future of Catastrophe
  • Epilogue: The Cosmopolitics of Literature

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