Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form - Hardcover

Pocock, Gordon

 
9780521201971: Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521201977 ISBN 13: 9780521201971
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1973

Inhaltsangabe

This study highlights that both Corneille and Racine were living writers, struggling to create developing forms within the strait-jacket of neo-classical decorum.

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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 by Pocock Gordon

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1973
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521201977
ISBN 13 
9780521201971
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
327
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