Word as action : Racine, rhetoric, and theatrical language
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Word as action : Racine, rhetoric, and theatrical language
(Oxford modern languages and literature monographs)
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-267) and indexes
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Verbal action and rhetorical theory
- formal oratory - trials, embassies and councils
- informal oratory - the protagonists, the confidants
- self-persuasion - monologues
- persuasive narrations. Appendix: Scheme of "inventio" and "dispositio".
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