Racine, or, The triumph of relevance / Odette de Mourgues
1967, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Library marks remain (internally). Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #407200
Physical description; 170 pp.; 23 cm. Contents; The choice of a focus -- The multivalency of time and space -- The stylization of passion -- The paradox of the héros moyen -- The interplay of action and characterization -- The double pattern: tragedy and moral order -- The aesthetic catharsis -- Appendix: Vistas in Racinian criticism. Subjects; Racine, Jean 1639-1699 Criticism and interpretation. French drama 17th century. Tragic, The.
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