Moliaere and Plurality: Decomposition of the Classicist Self: 1 (Sociocriticism, Literature, Society and History) - Hardcover
Synopsis
Jacques Lacan's comments on Le Misanthrope focus on the inauthenticity of any unified discourse (173-75), which is also Molière's concern in that play, though he used different terms. Molière does not subscribe to the myth of the classicist subject, a subject characterized by a theoretically universal - and «universalizable» - ability to produce and consume «true, » impersonal language. The ineluctability of pluralism within the «individual, » as well as among people and sub-cultures, is a fundamental theme of Moliéresque comedy, and is particularly important in the plays studied here. The critical study of discourses which has flourished in recent criticism and theory has not only a legitimate object of study, but also a precursor and ally in Molière.
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-Larry Riggs's sophisticated demonstration of the implicit dialogue between Moliere and Louis XIV over the right to plurality of voice contains lessons about cultural hegemony that transcend the seventeenth century and speak to contemporary concerns about the tyranny of the majority.- (Ronald Tobin)"
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Molière and Plurality: Decomposition of the Classicist Self (Sociocriticism)
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1989
ISBN 10: 082040912X
ISBN 13: 9780820409122
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