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- catalog abstract ""In a charming collection of elegant essays, one of the twentieth century's leading men of letters turns his vast knowledge and worldly authority to the texts of two seventeenth-century French dramatists. Louis Auchincloss considers sixteen plays by Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and his younger theatrical rival, Jean Racine (1639-99). Musing on the ideas that informed the court of the Sun King and on what classical allusions meant to them, Auchincloss offers thoughtful readings, new translations, and a wealth of shrewd observations about French classic tragedy, passion, self-sacrifice, self-aggrandizement, and civic and military glory." "Auchincloss lets the grand voices of Corneille's and Racine's heroes and heroines speak, while calling attention to details and discoveries that illumine aspects of both seventeenth-century and twentieth-century culture. He specifically considers the theme of gloire - the lofty destiny or mission that the hero (and more rarely the heroine) has set for himself and for which he would willingly sacrifice the most passionate romance, closest friendship, or dearest family ties. While gloire is more commonly associated with Corneille than with Racine, Auchincloss demonstrates that these French masters were capable of swapping predilections when it came to the Roman plays."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9816209.
- catalog coverage "Rome In literature.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""In a charming collection of elegant essays, one of the twentieth century's leading men of letters turns his vast knowledge and worldly authority to the texts of two seventeenth-century French dramatists. Louis Auchincloss considers sixteen plays by Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and his younger theatrical rival, Jean Racine (1639-99). Musing on the ideas that informed the court of the Sun King and on what classical allusions meant to them, Auchincloss offers thoughtful readings, new translations, and a wealth of shrewd observations about French classic tragedy, passion, self-sacrifice, self-aggrandizement, and civic and military glory." "Auchincloss lets the grand voices of Corneille's and Racine's heroes and heroines speak, while calling attention to details and discoveries that illumine aspects of both seventeenth-century and twentieth-century culture. He specifically considers the theme of gloire - the lofty destiny or mission that the hero (and more rarely the heroine) has set for himself and for which he would willingly sacrifice the most passionate romance, closest friendship, or dearest family ties. While gloire is more commonly associated with Corneille than with Racine, Auchincloss demonstrates that these French masters were capable of swapping predilections when it came to the Roman plays."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Horace -- Sophonisbe -- Nicomede -- Sertorius -- Mithridate -- La Mort de Pompee -- Cinna -- Britannicus -- Othon -- Tite et Berenice -- Polyeucte -- Theodore and Pulcherie -- Attila -- Surena.".
- catalog extent "vii, 90 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1570031223".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "Includes selected passages of Corneille's and Racine's French plays, with parallel English translations.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,".
- catalog spatial "Rome In literature.".
- catalog subject "842/.4093237 20".
- catalog subject "Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PQ1772 .A95 1996".
- catalog subject "Racine, Jean, 1639-1699 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Horace -- Sophonisbe -- Nicomede -- Sertorius -- Mithridate -- La Mort de Pompee -- Cinna -- Britannicus -- Othon -- Tite et Berenice -- Polyeucte -- Theodore and Pulcherie -- Attila -- Surena.".
- catalog title "La gloire : the Roman Empire of Corneille and Racine / Louis Auchincloss.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".