Sentence Structure and Characterization in the Tragedies of Jean Racine: A Computer-assisted StudySentence structure in Racine is demonstrated to be a powerful tool for characterization, and here, basic features are explored in the seven tragedies of Racine--terminal punctuation, sentence length, sentence type, use of questions and the conditional, and rapid-fire exchanges between characters. |
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... assumptions about tragedy and to delineate the relation- ship between language in tragedy and the process of inference by which spec- tator and critic alike perceive and inter- pret characterization , thereby gaining insight into the ...
... assumptions about tragedy and to delineate the relation- ship between language in tragedy and the process of inference by which spec- tator and critic alike perceive and inter- pret characterization , thereby gaining insight into the ...
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... play in question and to assumptions about tragedy . Approaching Racinian tragedy from one angle , certain recent critics have brought other disciplines to bear on literature and tragedy : the orientation of Roland Barthes to 11.
... play in question and to assumptions about tragedy . Approaching Racinian tragedy from one angle , certain recent critics have brought other disciplines to bear on literature and tragedy : the orientation of Roland Barthes to 11.
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... assumptions about tragedy . That other approach defines tragedy in terms of its underlying prin- ciples . An ancient approach through principles is found in Aristotle who describes tragedy in terms either so widely accepted as to become ...
... assumptions about tragedy . That other approach defines tragedy in terms of its underlying prin- ciples . An ancient approach through principles is found in Aristotle who describes tragedy in terms either so widely accepted as to become ...
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... assumptions about tragedy . Discussed in greater detail in chapter 1 , these different approaches to tragedy serve as a frame of reference for understanding assumptions about tragedy , in much the same way that the latter serves as a ...
... assumptions about tragedy . Discussed in greater detail in chapter 1 , these different approaches to tragedy serve as a frame of reference for understanding assumptions about tragedy , in much the same way that the latter serves as a ...
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... assumptions about the fun- damental elements of tragedy . These assumptions constitute the first point of reference and are closely related to the function of language in tragedy and to the special significance of language in ...
... assumptions about the fun- damental elements of tragedy . These assumptions constitute the first point of reference and are closely related to the function of language in tragedy and to the special significance of language in ...
Contents
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Andromaque Distribution of Basic Sentence Characteristics | 36 |
Britannicus and Bérénice | 54 |
Bajazet and Mithridate | 77 |
Iphigénie | 103 |
Phédre | 115 |
Comparative Sentence Structure The Other Racinian Plays | 133 |
Sentence Structure and Versification | 140 |
Conclusion | 157 |
The ComputerReadable Texts | 167 |
The Computer Programs | 169 |
Tables | 195 |
Bibliography | 204 |
Index | 209 |
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Achille Acomat act to act Agamemnon Agrippine Alexandre alexandrin Andromaque Antiochus assumptions about tragedy Atalide Athalie average Bajazet basic Britannicus chapter characterization characters Clytemnestre conditional sentences confidants Corneille's d'Aubignac DATA declarative sentences denouement discussion distich distribution dramatic Elder Olson emotional enfin Ériphile Esther expression features of sentence filler final frequent function Hélas hemistich Hermione inferences internal exclamations internal questions Iphigénie Iphigénie's Jean Racine Junie language mean sentence length metrical compensation Mithridate Monime monologue monostich Néron NULL occur OEnone Olson Oreste patterns Pharnace Phèdre et Hippolyte Pierre Corneille Plaideurs play playwrights Pyrrhus Racine's Racine's tragedies Racinian tragedy récit regular sentences repetition reveal Roxane scene Seigneur sentence structure sentence type significant specific SPITBOL STATISTICS subordination subroutine SYLCT syllables per sentence terminal punctuation theater Thébaïde Thésée tion tirade Tite et Bérénice title vocatives Titus tout type A sentences violent whole hemistichs word Xipharès
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Page 138 - Les at-on vus souvent se parler, se chercher? Dans le fond des forêts allaient-ils se cacher? Hélas! Ils se voyaient avec pleine licence. Le ciel de leurs soupirs approuvait...
Page 118 - Quoi! pour noyer les Grecs et leurs mille vaisseaux, Mer, tu n'ouvriras pas des abîmes nouveaux? Quoi ! lorsque les chassant du port qui les recèle, L'Aulide aura vomi leur flotte criminelle, Les vents, les mêmes vents, si longtemps accusés, Ne te couvriront pas de ses vaisseaux brisés?
Page 135 - J'excitai mon courage à le persécuter. Pour bannir l'ennemi dont j'étais idolâtre, J'affectai les chagrins d'une injuste marâtre; Je pressai son exil, et mes cris éternels L'arrachèrent du sein et des bras paternels.
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Page 28 - Ce n'est point une nécessité qu'il y ait du sang et des morts dans une tragédie : il suffit que l'action en soit grande, que les acteurs en soient héroïques, que les passions y soient excitées, et que tout s'y ressente de cette tristesse majestueuse qui fait tout le plaisir de la tragédie.
Page 135 - Par des vœux assidus je crus les détourner: Je lui bâtis un temple, et pris soin de l'orner; De victimes moi-même à toute heure entourée, Je cherchais dans leurs flancs ma raison égarée. D'un incurable amour remèdes impuissants!
Page 30 - Sow an act, and you reap a Habit ; Sow a habit, and you reap a Character; Sow a character, and you reap a Destiny.
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