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Word as Action - Racine, Rhetoric, and Theatrical Language (Hardcover, New)
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Word as Action - Racine, Rhetoric, and Theatrical Language (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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France's greatest tragedian, Jean Racine, is often admired for his
poetic and tragic qualities. This book, on the other hand, explores
the theatrical qualities of Racine's language and takes as its
analytical tool two neglected parts of rhetoric, inventio and
dispositio. How does Racine write exciting dialogue? He makes the
persuasive interaction of characters a key feature of his dramatic
technique and Word as Action shows how he deploys persuasion in
well-defined contexts: trials, embassies, and councils; informal
oratory as protagonists try to manipulate each other and their
confidants in order to make their own views and wishes prevail;
self-persuasion in monologues; and narrations, often used by
characters with persuasive intent. The book draws illuminating and
provocative comparisons with other playwrights and offers a closer
and better documented description of the specific nature of
Racine's theatrical language than has previously been available in
any one study.
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