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absolutism cultural history
Act III
Author_Amy Wygant
Boileau's Translation
Boileau’s Translation
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Chariot Crash
Conch Trumpet
Cultural Philology
De Versailles
Declaration Scene
Desiring Gaze
Draw Back
early modern memory studies
Elle Voit
emblematics analysis
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Experiential Topology
French classical drama
Henri Bremond
Isaac De Benserade
La Rime
labyrinthine eros in Racine
Le Chien
Le Dessein
Longinian Text
musical poetics
Mysterious Fluid
Philological Inquiry
Qui Ne
racinian
Racinian Text
Racinian Tragedy
seventeenth-century literature
Songe De Poliphile
Tragic Language
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781900755146
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Amy Wygant reads Racine's "Phedre" (1677) through an analysis of its 17th-century cultural contexts and a consideration of its subsequent reception history. She explores the construction of Racinian language as "musical", the poetics of the Racinian gaze, and Racine's labyrinthine eros of memory and forgetting. Reference is made to Lully's operas, the battle between the advocates of colour and the champions of drawing in the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and Le Notre's centreless garden labyrinth at Versailles. These close textual and contextual studies relate the detail of the tragedy to the conceptual sweep of 17th-century absolutism. Wygant's interdisciplinary study draws on the music history, as well as on emblematics, the history of the formal garden and the arts of memory. Racine's great threnody, the "recit de Theramene", is shown as representative of expressions of loss which lie at the root of early modern literature.
