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Racine And English Classicism
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Author : Katherine E. Wheatley
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-01-30
Racine And English Classicism written by Katherine E. Wheatley and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literary historians and critics who have written on the influence of Racine in England during the neoclassical period apparently have assumed that the English translators and adapters of Racine’s plays in general succeeded in presenting the real Racine to the English public. Katherine Wheatley here reveals the wide discrepancy between avowed intentions and actual results. Among the English plays she compares with their French originals are Otway’s Titus and Berenice, Congreve’s The Mourning Bride, and Philips’s The Distrest Mother. These comparisons, fully supported by quoted passages, reveal that those among the English public and contemporary critics who could not themselves read French had no chance whatever to know the real Racine: “The adapters and translators, so-called, had eliminated Racine from his tragedies before presenting them to the public.” Unacknowledged excisions and additions, shifts in plot, changes in dénouement, and frequent mistranslation turned Racine’s plays into “wretched travesties.” Two translations of Britannicus, intended for reading rather than for acting, are especially revealing in that they show which Racinian qualities eluded the British translators even when they were not trying to please an English theatergoing audience. Why it is, asks the author, that no English dramatist could or would present Racine as he is to the English public of the neoclassical period? To answer this question she traces the development of Aristotelian formalism in England, showing the relation of the English theory of tragedy to French classical doctrine and the relation of the English adaptations of Racine to the English neoclassical theory of tragedy. She concludes that “deliberate alterations made by the English, far from violating classical tenets, bring Racine’s tragedies closer to the English neoclassical ideal than they were to begin with, and this despite the fact that some tenets of English doctrine came from parallel tenets widely accepted in France.” She finds that “in the last analysis, French classical doctrine was itself a barrier to the understanding of Racinian tragedy in England and an incentive to the sort of change English translators and adapters made in Racine.” This paradox she explains by the fact that Racine himself had broken with the classical tradition as represented by Corneille.
Racine And English Classicism
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Author : Katherine Ernestine Wheatley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Racine And English Classicism written by Katherine Ernestine Wheatley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Classicism categories.
The Classical Moment
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Author : Martin Turnell
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1971
The Classical Moment written by Martin Turnell and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Classicism
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Author : Dominique Secretan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-06
Classicism written by Dominique Secretan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 1972, this book provides an overview of Classicism in literature. After an informative introduction to the term, it explores some of the periods and places in which Classicism has been prominent: the Italian Renaissance, England before and during the Restoration, Renaissance France and eighteenth-century Germany. In avoiding a rigid definition of Classicism, this book demonstrates its multiplicity and changeability across time periods, as well as its limits.
The Attitude Of Certain English Critics Toward Racine
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Author : Evan Alland Reiff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
The Attitude Of Certain English Critics Toward Racine written by Evan Alland Reiff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with Criticism categories.
Racine S Roman Tragedies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-01-17
Racine S Roman Tragedies written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In two of his most celebrated plays, Britannicus and Bérénice, Racine depicts the tragedies of characters trapped by the ideals, desires, and cruelties of ancient Rome. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts.
Moving Words Forms Of English Poetry
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Author : Derek Attridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-08-15
Moving Words Forms Of English Poetry written by Derek Attridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book investigates the ways in which poets have exploited the resources of the language as a spoken medium - its characteristic rhythms, its phonetic qualities, its deployment of syntax - to write verse that continues to move and delight.
Channel Crossings
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Author : Clive Scott
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-02
Channel Crossings written by Clive Scott and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Scott's subtle and adventurous analysis breaks new ground in textual understanding, while his translations radically challenge established orthodoxies. As he crosses back and forth between French and English poetry, he has illuminating encounters with a wide range of poets, from Labe and Shakespeare to Auden and Jaccottet. The embodiment of gender in the sonnet; the performance of the dramatic voice; the inflexions of the self in the voice of lyric verse; the 'landscaping' of nature in the line of verse; the interventions of the translator in the peculiar lives of the prose poem and free verse; the tasks of the translator and the comparatist in a new age - these are some of the issues addressed by Clive Scott in a sequence of essays as absorbing as they are original. ""Channel Crossings"" is the recipient of the R. H. Gapper Prize for 2004. The Prize, which is judged by the Society for French Studies, recognises the best publication of its year by any French studies scholar working in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The citation noted: In his book, Clive Scott gives a subtle and adventurous account of how processes of cultural exchange have played an active and enduring role in the development of the language of poetry in French and English over a period of several centuries...Clive Scott's book was one of a number of very impressive works published in 2002. The judges' choice was made in the light of the book's originality and its likely impact on wider critical debate on the language of poetry and on questions of method and approach in comparative literature."
Studies In Modern French Literature
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Author : Percy Mansell Jones
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1961
Studies In Modern French Literature written by Percy Mansell Jones and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with French literature categories.
Racine S Andromaque
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-10-01
Racine S Andromaque written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Drama categories.
Racine’s Andromaque: Absences and Displacements casts a new look at the dynamism, richness, and complexity of Racine’s first major tragedy, through a collection of articles specially commissioned by the editors Nicholas Hammond and Joseph Harris.
