1st Edition
Towards a Cultural Philology "Phedre" and the Construction of 'Racine'
By Amy Wygant
Copyright 1999
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: Racine enracine 1 Music: Daughter of Minos and Pasiphae 2 Design: Death of Hippolytus 3 Garden: Memory in the Labyrinth 4 Sublime: Theramene and the Wave
Biography
Amy Wygant
