Canonical States, Canonical Stages: Oedipus, Othering, and Seventeenth-Century DramaU of Minnesota Press, 1994 - 218페이지 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). |
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... body, the shining "body royal," imposes unity on difference. Beneath the horror and fascination with dispersion lurks an appeal to a stable unity: the monarch, in his own person and persona, is made to incarnate the contradictory hopes ...
... body politic, pass through the necessary erection as difference of whatever persons or groups that are excluded from the integrity of the state, that the state labels as its "other." In seventeenth-century Europe the importance of the ...
... body, a body that is double, the body royal and the body private. The king represents a transcendence of the merely physical reality of individual biology: as an incarnation (that is, a "representation") the king imposes order on social ...
... body of this book to demonstrate that the theater represents this drive toward "unity" and the exclusion of difference by retracing in its plots and peripeteia cultural myths that preexist the particular inchoate demands of the ...
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