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Passing Judgment
In Passing Judgment, Helene Bilis examines how an overlooked character-type--the royal judge--remained a constant of the tragic genre throughout the 17th century.
Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy
Tragedy has been reborn many times since antiquity. Seventeenth-century French playwrights composed tragedies marked by neoclassical aesthetics and the divine-right absolutism of the Grand Siècle. But their works also speak to the modern imagination, inspiring reactions from Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault; adaptations and reworkings by Césaire and Kushner; and new productions by francophone and anglophone directors. This volume addresses both the history of French neoclassical tragedy--its audiences, performance practice, and development as a genre--and the ideas these works raise, such as necessity, free will, desire, power, and moral behavior in the face of limited choices. Essays demonstrate ways to teach the plays through a variety of lenses, such as performance, spectatorship, aesthetics, rhetoric, and affect. The book also explores postcolonial engagement, by writers and directors both in and outside France, with these works.
Staging Women's Lives in Academia
Staging Women's Lives in Academia demonstrates how ostensibly personal decisions are shaped by institutions and advocates for ways that workplaces, not women, must be changed. Addressing life stages ranging from graduate school through retirement, these essays represent a gamut of institutions and women who draw upon both personal experience and scholarly expertise. The contributors contemplate the slipperiness of the very categories we construct to explain the stages of life and ask key questions, such as what does it mean to be a graduate student at fifty? Or a full professor at thirty-five? The book explores the ways women in all stages of academia feel that they are always too young or too old, too attentive to work or too overly focused on family. By including the voices of those who leave, as well as those who stay, this collection signals the need to rebuild the house of academia so that women can have not only classrooms of their own but also lives of their own.
Dignified Retreat
A panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in seventeenth-century France, drawing on the writings of over 100 men and women of letters, 'the generation of 1630', to understand the rise and refinement of the French language and the development of the literary culture of French classicism.
The New American Antiquarian, Volume I, Fall 2022
ISSN 2769-4100
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment
The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social and economic changes that altered European society's cultural life. Tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s. The dominance of France's military and cultural prestige during this period is reflected in the important, almo...
Kriegstheater
In der frühen Neuzeit wird das Kriegsgeschehen prominent in der Metaphorik des Theaters (theatrum belli) imaginiert, die eine geordnete Darstellbarkeit von Kampf und Schlacht verspricht. Vor dem Hintergrund der barocken Theater-Metaphorik ist dies verständlich, mit Blick auf die Präsenz des Kriegs in der theatralen und in der dramatischen Tradition muss der Befund indes überraschen. Denn das Theater tut sich schon aus technischen Gründen schwer, den Krieg unvermittelt auf die Bühne zu bringen. Der Sicht des Zuschauers bleibt dieser in der Regel entzogen. Mit mittelbaren Darstellungstechniken wie Mauerschau oder Botenbericht reflektieren Drama wie Theater aber um so konsequenter auf den Zusammenhang von ästhetischer und politischer Kriegssicht. Dieses Wechselspiel beleuchtet der Band im historischen Prozess.
