{"product_id":"in-the-wake-of-medea-neoclassical-theater-and-the-arts-of-destruction-hardback-9780823287826","title":"In the Wake of Medea; Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction (Hardback) 9780823287826","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIn the Wake of Medea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNeoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJuliette Cherbuliez (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823287826\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 August 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 19\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.57 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Wake of Medea\u003c\/i\u003e examines the violence of seventeenth-century French political dramas. French tragedy has traditionally been taken to be a passionless, cerebral genre that refused all forms of violence. This book explores the rhetorical, literary, and performance strategies through which violence persists, contextualizing it in a longer literary and philosophical history from Ovid to Pasolini.\u003cbr\u003e The mythological figure of Medea, foreigner who massacres her brother, murders kings, burns down Corinth, and kills her own children, exemplifies the persistence of violence in literature and art. A refugee who is welcomed yet feared, who confirms the social while threatening its integrity, Medea offers an alternative to western philosophy's ethical paradigm of Antigone. The Medean presence, Cherbuliez shows, offers a model of radically persistent and disruptive outsiderness, both for classical theater and for its wake in literary theory.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIn the Wake of Medea\u003c\/i\u003e explores a range of artistic strategies integrating violence into drama, from rhetorical devices like ekphrasis to dramaturgical mechanisms like machinery, all of which involve temporal disruption. The full range of this Medean presence is explored in treatments of the character Medea and in works figuratively invoking a Medean presence, from the well-known tragedies of Racine and Corneille through a range of other neoclassical political theater, including spectacular machine plays, Neo-Stoic parables, didactic Christian theater. \u003ci\u003eIn the Wake of Medea \u003c\/i\u003erecognizes the violence within these tragedies to explain why violence remains so integral to literature and arts today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Note on Translations and Names\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Coming after Violence in Literature   1\u003cbr\u003e Medea, a Manifesto   37\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e Surface Selves: Médée, 1634   53\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Medean Presence: Violence Unmade and Remade   94\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Staying Power: Performing the Present Moment of Tragedy   120\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Flying toward Futurity: Spectacularity and Suspension   143\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e Medea Overlived: The Future of Catastrophe   174\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: The Cosmopolitics of Literature   199\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   207\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   209\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e   227\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   239\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580357996824,"sku":"9780823287826","price":92.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/in-the-wake-of-medea-neoclassical-theater-and-the-arts-of-destruction-hardback-9780823287826","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}