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Playing the Martyr - Theater and Theology in Early Modern France (Hardcover)
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Playing the Martyr - Theater and Theology in Early Modern France (Hardcover)
Series: Scenes Francophones
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Playing the Martyr is a book about the interplay between theater
and religion in early modern France. Challenging the standard
narrative of modernity as a process of increased secularization
Christopher Semk demonstrates the centrality of religious thought
and practices to the development of neoclassical poetics. Engaging
with a broad corpus of religious plays, poetic treatises,
devotional literature, and contemporary theory, Semk shows that
religion was a vital interlocutor in early modern discussions
concerning the definition of verisimilitude, the nature and purpose
of spectacle, the mechanics of acting, and the position of the
spectator. Well researched and persuasively argued, Playing the
Martyr makes the case for a more complicated approach to the
relationship between religion and literature, namely, one that does
not treat religion as a theme deployed within literary works, but
as an active player in literary invention. Indeed, it makes the
case for a serious reconsideration of the role that religion plays
in the development of modern, secular literary forms.
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