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In the Wake of Medea : Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction
Cover -- IN THE WAKE OF MEDEA -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- A Note on Translations and Names -- Introduction: Coming after Violence in Literature -- Medea, a Manifesto -- 1. Surface Selves: Médée, 1634 -- 2. The Medean Presence: Violence Unmade and Remade -- 3. Staying Power:...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
: Fordham University Press
, 2020
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6282854 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- IN THE WAKE OF MEDEA -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- A Note on Translations and Names -- Introduction: Coming after Violence in Literature -- Medea, a Manifesto -- 1. Surface Selves: Médée, 1634 -- 2. The Medean Presence: Violence Unmade and Remade -- 3. Staying Power: Performing the Present Moment of Tragedy -- 4. Flying toward Futurity: Spectacularity and Suspension -- 5. Medea Overlived: The Future of Catastrophe -- Epilogue: The Cosmopolitics of Literature -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (265 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780823287840 |
