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Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer literary and philosophical history from Ovid to Pasolini.

Table of Contents

A Note on Translations and Names | ix
Introduction: Coming after Violence in Literature | 1
Medea, a Manifesto | 37
1. Surface Selves: Médée, 1634 | 53
2. The Medean Presence: Violence Unmade and Remade | 94
3. Staying Power: Performing the Present Moment of Tragedy | 120
4. Flying toward Futurity: Spectacularity and Suspension | 143
5. Medea Overlived: The Future of Catastrophe | 174
Epilogue: The Cosmopolitics of Literature | 199
Acknowledgments | 207
Notes | 209
Bibliography | 227
Index | 239

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 04/08/2020
      ISBN13: 9780823287819, 978-0823287819
      ISBN10: 0823287815
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer literary and philosophical history from Ovid to Pasolini.

      Table of Contents

      A Note on Translations and Names | ix
      Introduction: Coming after Violence in Literature | 1
      Medea, a Manifesto | 37
      1. Surface Selves: Médée, 1634 | 53
      2. The Medean Presence: Violence Unmade and Remade | 94
      3. Staying Power: Performing the Present Moment of Tragedy | 120
      4. Flying toward Futurity: Spectacularity and Suspension | 143
      5. Medea Overlived: The Future of Catastrophe | 174
      Epilogue: The Cosmopolitics of Literature | 199
      Acknowledgments | 207
      Notes | 209
      Bibliography | 227
      Index | 239

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