{"product_id":"corneille-and-racine-problems-of-tragic-form-0521098149","title":"Corneille and Racine: Problems of Tragic Form","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521098149\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pocock, Gordon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorneille and Racine may seem like marble monuments of an unchanging typical classicism. Mr Pocock is concerned to show that each of these great dramatists was a living writer, struggling to create developing forms and that the rules of neo-classical decorum were a strait-jacket to them. We can see in their writings a hesitation between poetic drama which creates its own forms from within and naturalistic drama which opts for truth to common life and a medium. In an interesting and comprehensive examination of the two authors, Mr Pocock shows the range of Coneille's achievement, and explains that a good seal which had been dismissed as decadence or incompetence was the result of his casting about for new forms. A section on Racine shows him opting for a deepening mode of drama which rejects naturalism and is implicitly subversive of neo-classical rules.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51938943762720,"sku":"NEW0521098149","price":52.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/corneille-and-racine-problems-of-tragic-form-0521098149","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}