Explores the theatricality of Jean Racine's language and takes as its analytical tool two relatively neglected parts of rhetoric ("inventio" and "dispositio"), highlighting the dramatic excitement created by characters who constantly engage in verbal battle trying to dominate those around them. Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; CFG; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503. . 1992. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Word as Action: Racine, Rhetoric, and Theatrical Language (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0198151853
ISBN 13: 9780198151852
Binding: Hardcover
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Hawcroft presents an exploration of the theatrical qualities of the language of France's greatest tragedian, Jean Racine, taking as its analytical tool two neglected parts of rhetoric--inventio and dispositio. Racine's dialogue is exciting, Hawcroft argues, because he makes persuasive interaction of characters a key feature of his dramatic technique. This book shows how Racine deploys persuasion in well-defined contexts: trials, embassies, and councils; informal oratory as protagonists try to manipulate each other and their confidants in order to make their own views and wishes prevail; self-persuasion in monologues; and narrations, often used by characters with persuasive intent. The book draws illuminating and provocative comparisons with other playwrights and offers a closer and better documented description of the specific nature of Racine's theatrical language than has previously been available in any one study.

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Michael Hawcroft is at Keble College, Oxford.

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