Word as Action by Michael Hawcroft
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.-
Debate and Dialogue
- The Anxious Body of Modernism
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The Mind-Body Problem in German Literature 1770-1830
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Breaking Boundaries
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The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching
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Poets, Patronage, and Print in Sixteenth-Century Portugal
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Ecstasy in Post-Unification Italy (1861-1915)
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The Rhetorical Feminine
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Antonin Artaud's Writing Bodies
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Fin de millenaire French Fiction
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Conspiracy Literature in Early Renaissance Italy
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Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante
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Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing
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Henri Michaux
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Proust's Gods
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Vision in the Novels of George Sand
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On a Knife-Edge
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Building the Text
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Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German
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Borges and Kafka
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Travelling in Different Skins
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Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France
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Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust
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The Drowned Muse
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Women and Literature in the Goethe Era 1770-1820
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Turkisms in South Slavonic Literature
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Staging the Spanish Golden Age
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The Kaiserchronik
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Duras, Writing, and the Ethical
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The Expression of the Inexpressible in Eugenio Montale's Poetry
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Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics
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Reading in Proust's A la recherche
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Science and Structure in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
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Tristan Corbiere and the Poetics of Irony
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Reading Nathalie Sarraute
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Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni
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C.P. Cavafy in the English and American Literary Scenes
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Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature
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Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism
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Marquard von Lindau and the Challenges of Religious Life in Late Medieval Germany
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Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing
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Dafydd ap Gwilym
'Racine himself was to use, in his tragedies, a suppler form of rhetoric more in tune with the original intentions of the ancientsIn so doing he produced a lively and gripping theatre in which speech is action. We are indebted to Hawcroft for this fascinating and original study of the techniques which made this possible.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'A fresh and powerful approach to Racine's verbal theatricality, the book perfectly complements David Maskell's recent examination of the non-verbal aspects of Racine's stage-art.' FMLS, February 1993
'Hawcroft's analyses are meticulous and have the very great virtue of drawing out the immense subtlety and variety in Racine's presentation of the arguments ... a significant contribution to Racinian studies.' Henry Phillips, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, French Studies, Vol. 47
'A fresh and powerful approach to Racine's verbal theatricality, the book perfectly complements David Maskell's recent examination of the non-verbal aspects of Racine's stage-art.' FMLS, February 1993
'Hawcroft's analyses are meticulous and have the very great virtue of drawing out the immense subtlety and variety in Racine's presentation of the arguments ... a significant contribution to Racinian studies.' Henry Phillips, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, French Studies, Vol. 47
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198151852 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198151853 |
| Title | Word as Action |
| Author | Michael Hawcroft |
| Series | Oxford Modern Languages And Literature Monographs |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1992-04-16 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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