...Stephen Bold Stephen Bold THE ANXIETY OF SENECAN INFLUENCE IN RACINE, OR PHEDRE IN THE LABYRINTH For those who would make sense of Jean Racine's career, Phedre will always present a paradox: at once a summit and an impasse. In this paper I propose not so much a resolution of this paradox as a new...

... princesse de tragedie pompeuse et desesperee. Par moments il relevait ses cheveux sur sa tete avec l'impatience de Phedre : QueUe importune main en formant taus ces nreuds A pris soin sur man front d'assembler mes cheveux ? « Mon petit chevreau, s'ecriait-il, en attribuant au chevreau la tristesse que seul...

... The poet Antoinette Deshoulières (1638–94) was notorious both in her own time and in literary history for her involvement in one particular quarrel. She is considered by some to have composed the scathing anonymous Sonnet burlesque, sur la Phèdre de Racine , which was circulated in January 1677...

..., Stephen, "The Anxiety of Senecan Influence in Racine, or Phedre in the Labyrinth," 417-432 Bougnoux Daniel, "L'amour, la politique: terrible loi de vivre double," 201-212 Chang, Leah, "Clothing 'Dame Helisenne': The Staging of Female Authorship and the Production of the 1538 Angoysses Douloureuses qui...

... d'acceptation, de renonciation: 1126 II (Astyanax) est du sang d'Hector, mais il en est Ie reste, Et pour ce reste enfin j'ai moi-meme, en un jour, Sacrifie mon sang, rna haine et mon amour. Quoique, comme l'observe Vinaver dans Ie cas de Phedre, l'anagnorisis, la reconnaissance, puisse etre suivie par une...

... expelled from the body politic. In both Camus and Perrault, it is when male authority is suspended that uncontrollable female desire is unleashed. One might cite the example of Racine's Phedre here as well. It is when Thesee is believed to be dead, marking a suspension of the law (against incest...

... me my diploma till i took the last exam. a take-home it was, and i didn’t recognize the passages, except for one, molière . . . or maybe marivaux. but the names were somehow based on phèdre . i decided anyway that this might be okay. theater. familiar territory. then i forgot, didn’t get...

...Thomas Wynn Thomas Wynn THE PROBLEM OF NAMES AND SUBJECTIVITY IN CORNEILLE'S RODOGUNE I mprisoned in the Bastille, Voltaire's Ingenu is introduced by his cellmate to French theater. After Racine's Iphigenie, Phedre, Andromaque, and Athalie have sent the young Huron into tearful rapture...

... of the Poetics in the preface of Phedre. Moving froln questions of inspiration to analysis of style and content, the thenlatic approach reappears in the series of graphic inlages of violence and the broken and torn bodies that fill Racine's plays. SeHier contrasts this tendency of descriptive excess in Racine...

... for a study of the problem of unity in Esther. Ehsan Ahmed, "Ethnic Difference and Mimetic Violence in Racine's Esther," Romance Notes 40 (1999): 33-40. 31. See also Melzer who sees Phedre and the seventeenth-century French classical culture of "purity" as a "part of a political rhetoric that was designed...

... into pieces. One summer in the late fifties, when I took it with me during a family vacation on the Black Sea shore, Phèdre , read on the beach, twice conjured up the power of the ancients gods. In the play, Theseus asked Poseidon, the god of the sea, to kill Hippolytus, Theseus’s son; in sync, the whirlwind...

... a fortiori une querelle, littéraire. Il est ainsi douteux que, malgré les instances d’Antoinette Deshoulières, elle se soit engagée dans la querelle de Phèdre , et plus encore par ce sonnet incisif contre Boileau qu’on lui attribue, et qui contredit la réputation de douceur et de bonté qu’elle s’attachait...

... text. This emblem would be Mallarme's response to Horace's refusal of the monstrous in his Ars poetica: "La sirene est l'embleme de la beaute nouvelle, la belle puissance de l'artifice opposee au 'beau vivant' dont Ie Platon du Phedre avait legue Ie modele aAristote, Aristote a Horace, Horace a Boileau...

... not believe that the play is a political tragedy. The truth is that one cannot distinguish the sentimental from the political in this play as in the rest of Racine s theater until one comes to Phèdre, where the political is clearly a secondary motive. This is true despite ­Jean-P­ ierre Miquel s assertion...

... that Peyrehorade's citations come from works describing mistaken identity (Amphitryon), transgression (Phedre), or replacement (Aeneid) in the context of marriage, thus mirroring Alphonse's "double" wedding as well as its tragic results. The Resistance of Reference: Linguistics, Philosophy, and the Literary Text...

...). After this section we go to the Opéra Comique to hear Berma perform Phèdre , a famous scene in which the Princesse de Guermantes and the Duchesse de Guermantes are compared to water nymphs in the caverns of their private boxes. Proustifying on a grand scale, the narrator plays off his gorgeous vision...

... croient qu'un gout en exclut forcement un autre» (III, 268) ? « Tu Ie savais ! » : telle est Ia seule replique de l'interpretation de Phedre par la Berma qui a frappe Swann (I, 557). « Un amour de Charlus » Swann avait donc toutes les premisses necessaires pour ne pas enchainer une succession de meprises...

... than Iriarte," while explaining that the former "often imitated La Fontaine and Phedre" in that order (2: 348). Clearly, the time is ripe for a reconsideration and new appreciation of the centrality of Samaniego's fables to the Spanish Enlightenment. Indeed, the inexplicable neglect Samaniego has...

... flatterie, que Racine n'hesitera pas acondamner une nouvelle fois avec vehemence dans Phedre : Detestables flatteurs, present Ie plus funeste Que puisse faire aux rois la colere celeste. (vv. 1325-26) Tout se resume ici, pour Ie prince qui gouverne, au choix de la bonne maxime, comprise comme regie de vie...