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.
| ISBN: | 9780198151852 |
| Publication date: | 16th April 1992 |
| Author: | Michael Fellow and Tutor in French, Fellow and Tutor in French, Keble College, Oxford Hawcroft |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: general Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics |
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.
Word as Action features in the following genres: Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: general, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Word as Action is available in Hardback
Word as Action was written by Michael Fellow and Tutor in French, Fellow and Tutor in French, Keble College, Oxford Hawcroft and published by Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press
Word as Action has 288 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs series