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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... the "Problem" of Anxiety 1 Chapter 2 Fuenteovejuna: The Ideology of Loss and the Myth of History 33 Chapter 3 La vida es sueno: Patriarchy's Sacrifice 63 Chapter 4 Playing Dead: Corneille's Canon and Absolute Tragedy 90.
... ideological investments — the ferocity of exclusionary strategies — that preside over the elaboration of the Western literary canon. Removed from the empyrean of a universalizing beau ideal, those works that (since the end of the ...
... ideological homogeneity, the intricate drives of hegemonic culture efface heterogeneity by the very processes by which it assures the "naturalness" of its ... ideology of absolutist culture — a patriarchal culture from which is xii Preface.
... ideology of the "One." In order to delineate the ways in which I understand the collusion between the seventeenth-century canon with certain subjective categories that are subsumed by it I will rely, in this study, both on ...
... ideological, sexual, and social prejudices, intrigued me. What is at stake in these plays? Why do we continue to read ... ideology that functions in and through our own investments in forms of pleasure, theatrical pleasure, that are ...