Cherbuliez, Juliette, 1970-

In the wake of Medea : neoclassical theater and the arts of destruction / Juliette Cherbuliez. - New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Coming after Violence in Literature -- Medea, a Manifesto -- Surface Selves: Medee, 1634 -- The Medean Presence: Violence Unmade and Remade -- Staying Power: Performing the Present Moment of Tragedy -- Flying toward Futurity: Spectacularity and Suspension -- Medea Overlived: The Future of Catastrophe -- Epilogue: The Cosmopolitics of Literature

Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer literary and philosophical history from Ovid to Pasolini.



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Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) --In literature.
Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) --In literature.


French literature--History and criticism.
Violence in literature.


Electronic Books.

PQ423 / .I584 2020