Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form - Softcover

Pocock, Gordon

 
9780521098144: Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521098149 ISBN 13: 9780521098144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Corneille and Racine may seem like marble monuments of an unchanging typical classicism. Mr Pocock is concerned to show that each of these great dramatists was a living writer, struggling to create developing forms and that the rules of neo-classical decorum were a strait-jacket to them. We can see in their writings a hesitation between poetic drama which creates its own forms from within and naturalistic drama which opts for truth to common life and a medium. In an interesting and comprehensive examination of the two authors, Mr Pocock shows the range of Coneille's achievement, and explains that a good seal which had been dismissed as decadence or incompetence was the result of his casting about for new forms. A section on Racine shows him opting for a deepening mode of drama which rejects naturalism and is implicitly subversive of neo-classical rules.

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Book Description

Corneille and Racine may seem like marble monuments of an unchanging typical classicism. Mr Pocock is concerned to show that each of these great dramatists was a living writer, struggling to create developing forms and that the rules of neo-classical decorum were a strait-jacket to them.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521098149
ISBN 13 
9780521098144
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
336

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