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  3. Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 October 2009
      25 September 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511553936
      9780521412933
      9780521032308
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553936
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.434kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.34kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in French (36)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in French (36)
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    This 1992 book analyses the relation between an emergent modern subjectivity in seventeenth-century French literature, particularly in dramatic works, and the contemporaneous evolution of the absolutist state. It shows how major writers of the Classical period (Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lafayette) elaborate a new subject in and through their representations of the family, and argues that the family serves as the mediating locus of a patriarchal ideology of sexual and political containment. Most importantly, it asks why the theatre became the privileged form of representation in this state, and why this theatre concentrates almost exclusively on family conflict. Professor Greenberg argues that the narrative of oedipal sexuality and subjugation central to this new literary canon reflected the conflicting social, political and economic forces that were shifting European society away from the universe of the Renaissance and guiding it towards the 'transparency' of Classical representation.

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    "...both by the depth and brilliance of his perceptions and the clarity and elegance of his formulations, Mitchell Greenberg has made, with this work, a major contribution to seventeenth-century French studies." Ralph Albanese, Jr., L'Esprit Créateur

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