...Ronan Y. Chalmin Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 Ronan ~ Chalmin BRITANNICUS, TRAGEDIE DU PLAIRE D e toutes les regles que requiert ce qu'on nomme Ie « commerce du monde » a l'age classique, plaire est sans doute la premiere 1. Moliere, dans La Critique de recole des...

...Roger Pensom Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Roger Pensom RACINE: CE QUE LA TRAGEDIE N'EST PAS.1 II n'est pas de tache plus delicate que la recherche de l'originalite d'un ecrivain qui ne pretend pas en avoir. (E. Vinaver) En posant que "Berenice n'est done pas une...

...Richard J. Golsan Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Richard]. Go/san READING PHIL WATTS ON LES BIENVEILLANTES L ast fall I asked Vincent Debaene to share Phil Watts's book proposal, Remnants of Tragedy, with me. The title Remnants of Tragedy had also been the title...

... coincide is in their understanding of art's ultimate purpose. Above all, both view the creative and imaginative endeavor as a life-affirming enterprise. For Nietzsche, the artistic vehicle of life's absolute affirmation is tragedy. We read in his Twilight of the Idols: Tragedy is so far from providing...

... literary salons. The demise of Pradon's play was already complete: Racine could comfortably look down in detached silence on the rubble of the past furor. There is, thus, at least an undercurrent of subtle irony in the opening line's placid erudition: "Voici encore une tragedie dont Ie sujet est pris...

.... On Belyard's biography, see Bouteille-Meister, "Representer Ie present" 487. 3. While the better-known La Guisiade (Lyon, 1589) by Pierre Matthieu recounts the duke's assassination, Belyard's "tragedie nationale d'actualite" stages the duke's death. The Romanic Review Volume 104 Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees...

... Pagnol, a movie about a hopelessly naive grocer who dreams of becoming a tragic actor. Le Schpountz is not just a comedy; it is very precisely a movie about not being able to understand or attain the tragedy of life. It offers the devaluation of tragic acting as popular entertainment. In one...

..., and Athalie have sent the young Huron into tearful rapture, the Jansenist recommends another tragedy: "Lisez Rodogune, lui dit Gordon; on dit que c'est Ie chefd'reuvre du theatre; les autres pieces qui vous ont fait tant de plaisir sont peu de chose en comparaison." Corneille's favorite of his own tragedies...

... a gaucho tragedy derived from the national epic, the Martin Fierro, ("Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz a story set during Argentina's Indian wars paired up with a story about a fourth-century Barbarian invading Ravenna ("Story of the Warrior and the Captive a story about the Greek Minotaur ("The House...

... and his uncompromising skill and erudition. (JELENA TODOROVIC, University of Wisconsin-­Madison) Rachel A. Walsh. Ugo Foscolo s Tragic Vision in Italy and ­England. University of Toronto Press, 2014. 218 pp. Rachel A. Walsh s monograph on Ugo Foscolo s early nineteenth-c­entury tragedies focuses...

..., apres m'avoir cherche partout, rna mere me trouva en larmes dans Ie petit raidillon contigu a Tansonville, en train de dire adieu aux aubepines, entourant de mes bras les branches piquantes, et, comme une princesse de tragedie a qui peseraient ces vains ornements, ingrat envers l'importune main qui en...

... l espace du texte s organise et comment il s organise en espaces oppositionnels par clivages à l intérieur de la scène ou entre la scène et le ­hors-­scène (190 91). In the instance of Britannicus, the interaction between stage and offstage defines the meaning of the tragedy. As many scholars have...

... in Borges's case it is less apparent. Are we to see the historical disillusion of the story as an image merely of the narrator's own temperamental outlook secreted, as it were, within the public tragedy of the Great War? Ts'ui Pen is after all his ancestor. Or does the prevalence of such a mood and viewpoint...

... Barthes called in his paper "the totalitarian ideology of the referent" (138). Ruwet suggested, however, that the structural method was obsolete: "There would be little sense," he argued, "in binding the destiny of literary studies to 23. "I would say that there is no myth of Oedipus in Greek tragedy...

... taedebat." (qtd. Volker Schroder, La Tragedie du sang d'Auguste: Politique et intertextualite dans Britannicus, "Biblio 17" 119 (Tiibingen: G. Narr, 1999) 86, n.2.) BAJAZET AND THE SCANDAL OF SLAVE RULE 421 ian, taken perhaps by the Tartars, in their incursions into that Country. The Visiers themselves...

... similar understanding of the role of the passions-particularly love-in the realm of politics, and how Senault's De ['Usage des passions (1641) and Le Monarque, ou Le Devoir du Souverain (1661) lend themselves as matter in two poignant tragedies by Racine, Andromaque (1667) and Berenice (1670). Senault...

... travail salarié 18 . L’archaïque persiste aussi dans les dialectes (notamment ceux du Frioul—qu’il met en poésie contre la langue italienne fasciste). La figure emblématique de l’archaïque dans l’œuvre de Pasolini est la mythique Médée , issue de la tragédie d’Euripide, interprétée par Maria Callas...

... zele et une ardeur singuliere la acorrection de cette tragedie; il passa des nuits entieres refondre son ouvrage; et soit pour dissiper Ie sommeil, soit pour ranimer ses sens, il fit un usage immodere du cafe: cinquante tasses par ajour lui suffirent peine. Cette liqueur qui mit son sang dans la plus...

... A. Walsh. Ugo Foscolo s Tragic Vision in Italy and ­England. University of Toronto Press, 2014. 218 pp. Rachel A. Walsh s monograph on Ugo Foscolo s early nineteenth-c­entury tragedies focuses on the less successful but highly in­ter­est­ing aspect of the ­great Italian writer s oeuvre, his tragedies...

... mais aussi Ie parler intertextuel qui introduit "un theme dans Ie theme" et provoque l'inquietude salutaire du lecteur, l'interrogation qui Ie fait aller de l'avant et l'eloigne de tout discours univoque. II. Diachronie : Ie roman et Ie siecle des tragedies Je voudrais maintenant reprendre ce corpus...