Death, Deceit and Desire: Exchanges of Violence and Power in some representative Tragedies of Pierre Corneille

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Main Author: Byrnes, James Joseph (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: 1994
In: Dissertation abstracts international
Year: 1994, Volume: 55, Issue: 3

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LOK |0 938   |l Abstract: Central to the dissertation, is the analysis and the evaluation of the ethical and aesthetic preoccupations of Pierre Corneille in his tragedies inparticular and in hi work in general from a perspective derived in part from the philosophical anthropology of René Girard. The introductory chapter presents an overview of the work of Pierre Corneille while tracing the methodological contours of Girard's thought by means of a critical reading of his major books. This reading establishes the value and points out the potential limitations of Girard's work as a tool for understanding the plays of Corneille. In the second chapter questions concerning the tragic genre, symbolic representation, the foundations of classical culture, the history of ideas and mentalitess, and themes such as kinship, kingship, mediation, production, desire, violence, selfhood and death are explored in their development through the tragedies of Corneille with special reference to the political, literary, philosophical, ideological, and sociological context of 17th-century France. The following chapters examine and develop the theoretical and textual issues and subjects raised in the first two chapters through a close reading of Corneille's tragedies in their evolution from Le Cid to Surena. Important to this thesis is the analysis of the phenomena of imitation and the mechanism of victimization and the degree wo which Corneille was able to reveal functioning. The dynamics of collective and individual forms of violence and their displacement, conversion or contagion are examined. The constitution and communication of the value of "gloire" as an intersubjective unit of account is traced. This archaeology of Cornelian knowledge respects the different historical strata of significance in evaluating Corneille's oeuvre from a multidisciplinary perspective and in engaging the debate on the function of literature. The power/knowledge couplet that underlies Michel Foucault's work on the Classical age and the death/communication couplet that underlies the work of Michel Serres permit a wider development of questions regarding the nature of human exchange and mimesis. Although I make extensive use of the work of many critics the tragedies of Corneille remain the main focus of the dissertation. (Source: DAO).  |8 0 
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