| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Medea |
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Violence |
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seventeenth-century France |
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theater |
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tragedy |
| Subject |
Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) -- In literature
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| SUBJECT |
Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) -- In literature
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Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) fast |
| Subject |
French literature -- History and criticism
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Violence in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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French literature
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Literature
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Violence in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823287833 |
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0823287831 |
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9780823287840 |
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082328784X |
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