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1.
Jean Racine: A Critical Biography
Contributors:
Publisher:
Cassell 1951
Subjects:
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699--Biography
Dramatists, French--17th Century--Bibliography
Drama
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...heshould have so misjudged Jean Racine's poetic genius and,in his admiration...acceptedBoileau's patronizing estimate of Racine the writer, isharder to forgive. The pious...it. But the trueoriginality of Racine--his lightness of touch, his...
2.
Corneille and Racine in England: A Study of the English Translations of the Two Corneilles and Racine, with Especial Reference to Their Presentation on the English Stage
Contributors:
Publisher:
Macmillan 1904
Subjects:
Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
Corneille, Thomas, 1625-1709
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699
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...Constantinewas a very great failure, and closed the presen­tations from Corneille and Racine in anythingbut a burst of glory.After Dr. Francis, the next writer to trytragedy was one S. Aspinwall, of whom nomore seems to be known than that he...
3.
Word as Action: Racine, Rhetoric, and Theatrical Language
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University 1992
Subjects:
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699--Technique
Rhetoric--History--17th Century
Tragedy
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...against vraisemblance which thecareless writer of monologues might all too easily commit...necessarilya reliable guide to understanding Racine's monologues, becaused'Aubignac has...from the first half of the centuryand Racine's monologues can be very different from...
4.
Last Periods of Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen
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Publisher:
Wayne State University Press 1961
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and Interpretation
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
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...Builder, and secondarily to the wholeof Ibsen's previous work. The hero of each of the fourplays is a genius--builder, writer, financier, sculptor--and each play is concerned, to some degree, with theconflicting claims of vocation and of the personal...
5.
Studies in French-Classical Tragedy
Contributors:
Publisher:
Vanderbilt University Press 1958
Subjects:
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699
French Drama (Tragedy)--History and Criticism
French Drama--17th Century--History and Criticism
Drama
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...S MITHRIDATEAFTER Bajazet, Racine's position as the leading tragicdramatist...his later, less happy days, Racine was still onlythe writer of tragedies of love, who was...precisely those noted figures in whom Racine found hischief interest, and...
6.
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
Contributors:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press 2010
Subjects:
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
Novelists, Russian--19th Century--Biography
Russia--Intellectual Life--1801-1917
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...criticism of the classicistform of Racine and Corneille, Feodor springs...201Ctheburning, passionate Racine, enraptured by his ideal...against itself, no earlier writer is closer toDostoevsky's psychology...devoutly Christian Jansenist Racine.11 Cor­neille also...
7.
Rousseau's Legacy: Emergence and Eclipse of the Writer in France
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1995
Subjects:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Influence
French Literature--History and Criticism--Theory, Etc
Authorship--Social Aspects--France--History
Politics and Literature--France--History
Literature and Society--France--History
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...the novelist" from "the writer," Kundera goes on to citeexamples...00ADbrated novels also the writer of books on music and the history...polemical essay on romantictheater, Racine and Shakespeare, of autobiographical...Wasn't he, in short, "a writer" before he was "a nov­elist...
8.
Faith of a (Woman) Writer
Contributors:
Publisher:
Greenwood Press 1988
Subjects:
Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism--Congresses
Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism--Congresses
Women And Literature--History--20th Century--Congresses
Women Authors--Biography--Congresses
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...Her career as a twentieth-century writer spans more than half the century.When...she has receivedso little attention as a writer responding to the sexual and political...her 1939 novel, by al­luding to Racine Bajazet as "a tragedy of events close...
9.
Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press 1995
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Knowledge--America
National Characteristics, American, in Literature
Group Identity in Literature
Self in Literature
Humorous Stories, American--History and Criticism
Comic, the, in Literature
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...ever achieve. With disarmingsimplicity Huck describes himself going through moral agonies like aprotagonist in Corneille or Racine. He prays fruitlessly; he looks hardat his world-besotted self and his accumulated social obligations; hesoliloquizes about...
10.
Mid-Career Tragedies
Contributors:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press 1958
Subjects:
Poetry
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...formula can wholly account for the work ofa writer of genius. The most significant light is shedon Racine's by an envisagement of the conflict between...faction. Accordingly,in his next drama, Racine sought blood and passion.He found them...
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