Canonical States, Canonical Stages: Oedipus, Othering, and Seventeenth-Century Drama ebook

by Mitchell Greenberg

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Xxxix, 218 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-211) and index. Oedipus - Ch. 1. Shakespeare's Othello and the "Problem" of Anxiety - Ch.

Xxxix, 218 pages ; 24 cm. 2. Fuenteovejuna: The Ideology of Loss and the Myth of History - Ch. 3. La vida es sueno: Patriarchy's Sacrifice - Ch. 4. Playing Dead: Corneille's Canon and Absolute Tragedy - Ch. 5. Racine's Berenice and the Allegory of Absolutism.

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Greenberg offers a powerful interpretation of the classical stage in its relationship to the emergence of absolutism in Europe. As drama it remains recalcitrant to any schema that by enfolding it within a particular analytic frame would confine it. The violence, the horror, and the pathos ofOthellobreak the ties binding it to the interpretive act and return the reader/spectator to the whirling abyss, to the turmoil the play at once most fears and yet desires.

In the crucible of seventeenth-century Europe, a new kind of subjectivity formed, private and interior

Canonical States, Canonical Stages was first published in 1994. He is the author of, among other books, Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose: The Family Romance of French Classicism (1992).

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Canonical states, canonical stages by Mitchell Greenberg, 1994, University of Minnesota Press . Together, let's build an Open Library for the World. Oedipus, othering, and seventeenth-century drama. by Mitchell Greenberg.

Together, let's build an Open Library for the World. Published 1994 by University of Minnesota Press in Minneapolis. Canonical States, Canonical Stages : Oedipus, Othering, and Seventeenth-Century Drama. The originality and strength of the book reside in its fascinating integration of texts dealing with political theory, psychoanalysis, history, and literature. Saved in: Bibliographic Details. Main Author: Greenberg, Mitchell.

In 17th-century Europe, a new kind of subjectivity formed. Perversely, the new private subject made its most spectacular appearance on the public stage; an appearance that also marked the emergence of absolutism in Europe. What these two phenomena had to do with one another, and how they were elaborated in the theatre of the 17th century, is the subject of this work. In particular, it shows how the Oedipus myth, reinterpreted on various stages at the end of the Renaissance, served the purposes of the emerging culture by replaying the founding moment of absolute rule.

Canonical States, Canonical Stages. 9780816624119: Paperback Release Date: 1st April 1994. In 17th-century Europe, a new kind of subjectivity formed

Canonical States, Canonical Stages. Dimensions: 152 x 229. Number of Pages: 264. University of Minnesota Press. Canonical States, Canonical Stages. In 17th-century Europe, a new kind of subjectivity formed.

Canonical States, Canonical Stages was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

In the crucible of seventeenth-century Europe, a new kind of subjectivity formed, private and interior. Perversely, the new private subject made its most spectacular appearance on the public stage-an appearance that, as Mitchell Greenberg amply demonstrates, also marked the emergence of absolutism in Europe. What these two phenomena had to do with one another, and how they were elaborated in the theater of the seventeenth century, is the subject of Greenberg's book, a masterful critical work that relates the dramatic construction of modern subjectivity and absolutist culture to the formation of the Western literary canon.

In particular, Canonical States, Canonical Stages shows how the Oedipus myth, reinterpreted on various stages at the end of the Renaissance, served the purposes of the emerging culture by replaying the founding moment of absolute rule. Working with models of genealogical criticism, psychoanalysis, and a certain Continental feminism, Greenberg reads plays by Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Calderón, Corneille, and Racine to show how, as symptomatic texts staged within the confines of familial scenarios, they combine a dynamics of politics with a conflicting "private" desire shown to be inimical to the dominant ideology. This analysis reveals how scenarios of sacrifice and transcendence are brought into play to normalize and naturalize inchoate and threatening forces of social change by appealing to preexisting cultural models such as the myth of Oedipus. A fascinating integration of texts from political theory, psychoanalysis, history, and literature, Canonical States, Canonical Stages offers a powerful interpretation of the interrelated representation of subjectivity and absolutism on the seventeenth-century stage.

Winner of the 1995 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

Mitchell Greenberg is chair of the Department of French and Italian at Miami University in Ohio. He is the author of, among other books, Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose: The Family Romance of French Classicism (1992).