Author

Publication

1999 - Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Ind, Indiana

Language

English

Word Count

62,750 words, Guess

Page Count

251 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL390032M
  • ISBN-101557531609
  • OCLC Control Number40533810
  • Library of Congress Control Number98055267
  • Goodreads3081817

Classifications

  • DDC842/.051209
  • LCCPQ561 .L96 1999

Description

"In this revisionist study of the poetics of tragedy during the French classical age, John Lyons challenges prevailing notions of a coherent, unified, and widely accepted "classical doctrine." By returning to major, yet recently neglected texts, Lyons analyzes conceptions of tragedy that will surprise many readers familiar with the canonical tragedies of seventeenth-century France, tragedies sometimes wrongly assumed to have been constructed according to the precepts of a community of theorists.". "This reassessment of French classical ideas about tragedy will be valuable to students and scholars of French literature, drama, and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Purdue studies in Romance literatures ;

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