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.