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Racine’s Andromaque: Absences and Displacements casts a new look at the dynamism, richness, and complexity of Racine’s first major tragedy (first performed in Paris in 1667), through a collection of articles specially commissioned by the editors Nicholas Hammond and Joseph Harris. Challenging received opinions about the fixity of French ‘classicism’, this volume demonstrates how Racine’s play is preoccupied with absences, displacements, instability, and uncertainty. The articles explore such issues as: movement and transactions, offstage characters and locations, hallucinations and fantasies, love and desire, and translations and adaptations of Racine’s play. This collection will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of seventeenth-century French theatre.
Contributors: Nicholas Hammond, Joseph Harris, Michael Moriarty, Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde, Delphine Calle, Jennifer Tamas, Michael Hawcroft, Katherine Ibbett, Richard Parish.
Contributors: Nicholas Hammond, Joseph Harris, Michael Moriarty, Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde, Delphine Calle, Jennifer Tamas, Michael Hawcroft, Katherine Ibbett, Richard Parish.
Price: $122.00
Pages: 170
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Faux Titre
Publication Date:
17 October 2019
ISBN: 9789004415058
Format: Hardcover
“I primi tre studi sono dedicati alle assenze nell’Andromaque. Nicholas Hammond […] illustra come l’assenza delle figure chiave di Ettore, Achille, padre di Pirro, e di Elena madre di Ermione, eserciti una forte presa simbolica sui personaggi presenti in scena che, in quanto sopravvissuti, definiscono la loro presenza in relazione ai membri assenti della loro famiglia […] Nell’ultimo contributo […] Joseph Harris analizza un cospicuo numero di falsi riconoscimenti genuini o finti, momenti in cui i personaggi vedono persone non fisicamente presenti o fingono di averle viste.”
- Monica Pavesio, in Studie Francesi, No. 193 2021 pp. 213-214
- Monica Pavesio, in Studie Francesi, No. 193 2021 pp. 213-214
Nicholas Hammond (D.Phil Oxford, 1992), Professor of Early Modern French Literature and Culture at Cambridge University, has published several books on early modern French subjects such as Pascal, Port-Royal, Gossip, and, most recently, The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris (Penn State UP, 2019).
Joseph Harris (Ph.D. Cambridge, 2002), Professor of Early Modern French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, has published widely on early modern French literature, notably Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France (2014).
Joseph Harris (Ph.D. Cambridge, 2002), Professor of Early Modern French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, has published widely on early modern French literature, notably Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France (2014).