0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R1,000 - R2,500 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments

Playing the Martyr - Theater and Theology in Early Modern France (Hardcover): Christopher Semk Playing the Martyr - Theater and Theology in Early Modern France (Hardcover)
Christopher Semk
R2,126 Discovery Miles 21 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Killing Karoline - A Memoir
Sara-Jayne King Paperback  (1)
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140
Leper Priest of Moloka'I - The Father…
Richard Stewart Hardcover R2,954 Discovery Miles 29 540
Bantex @School Poster Paints (6 x 60ml…
R93 Discovery Miles 930
Fundamentals of human rights and…
Isak Oosthuizen Paperback R700 Discovery Miles 7 000
Free Fall - Why South African…
Malcolm Ray Paperback  (5)
R320 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950
Trauma Counselling - Principles And…
Alida Herbst, Gerda Reitsma Paperback R549 R520 Discovery Miles 5 200
Teaching-Learning dynamics
Monica Jacobs, Ntombizolile Vakalisa, … Paperback R618 Discovery Miles 6 180
India's Foreign Policy - Past, Present…
S.K. Shah Hardcover R854 Discovery Miles 8 540
The Comparative Law Yearbook of…
Dennis Campbell Hardcover R4,711 Discovery Miles 47 110
India's Intelligence Culture and…
Dheeraj Chaya Hardcover R4,490 Discovery Miles 44 900

 

Partners