Birth Marks

The Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille, and Jean Racine

von Richard E Goodkin

304 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Through a study of the evolution of inheritance issues in seventeen tragedies written over the course of half a century the Corneille brothers, Pierre and Thomas, and by Jean Racine, Richard E. Goodkin questions the pervasive assumption that classical tragedy, a form written for the aristocracy, is informed exclusively by an aristocratic ethic. Instead, a fresh reading of both canonical and noncanonical texts demonstrates that even the most formal body of literature produced by French classical writers expresses a conflict between a declining aristocratic hierarchy based on inherited privilege and a rising capitalistic ethic that favors competition and enterprise.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren
• ISBN: 9780812235500
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.07.2000
• Größe: 235 x 159 mm
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press