Kingdom of Disorder: The Theory of Tragedy in Classical France

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Purdue University Press, 1999 - 251 Seiten
In this revisionist study of the poetics of tragedy during the French classical age, John Lyons challenges prevailing notions of a coherent, unified, and widely accepted classical doctrine.
 

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Articulating the Aesthetic 1 Regular Theater
1
Taking Aristotle Apart
3
Multiplication Conflict and Inflation
9
The Rule as Art Form
15
The Return of Taste
24
Chapter Two Passion in the Age of Reason 43 Passion above
43
Means or End?
48
From Horror to Pleasure
55
Closure and Community
142
Place and Space
147
Offstage and Onstage
159
Time and the Eyes Memory
173
From the Tragic Tableau to the Unity of Peril
187
The Tragic Tableau
188
Closure and the Mechanism of Justice
193
The Unity of Peril
195

Suppressing Reason Disrupting Language
76
The World Corrected
83
Sacrificing Verisimilitude for History and Pleasure
95
Colors
112
The Verisimilar Character or Bienséance
122
Chapter Four The Unities and the Classical Spectator
140
Conclusion
203
Notes
213
Bibliography
227
Index
245
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Seite viii - In the unity of time you find them so scrupulous that it yet remains a dispute among their poets, whether the artificial day of twelve hours, more or less, be not meant by Aristotle, rather than the natural one of twenty-four; and consequently, whether all plays ought not to be reduced into that compass.
Seite 2 - Il est constant qu'il ya des préceptes, puisqu'il ya un art; mais il n'est pas constant quels ils sont. On convient du nom sans convenir de la chose, et on s'accorde sur les paroles pour contester sur leur signification. Il faut observer l'unité d'action, de lieu, et de jour, personne n'en doute; mais ce n'est pas une petite difficulté de savoir ce que c'est que cette unité d'action, et jusques où peut s'étendre cette unité de jour et de lieu.
Seite viii - I have not observed any that have extended the time to thirty hours: in the Unity of Place they are full as scrupulous; for many of their...

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John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia. He has written several books on seventeenth-century French literature, including Exemplum (1989) and The Tragedy of Origins (1996).

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