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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... nature.3 In his first , Le Discours de l'utilite et des parties du poeme dramatique , Corneille writes of the goals , of the moral utility , of the constituent parts , and of the quantitative divisions of the dramatic poem , without ...
... nature.3 In his first , Le Discours de l'utilite et des parties du poeme dramatique , Corneille writes of the goals , of the moral utility , of the constituent parts , and of the quantitative divisions of the dramatic poem , without ...
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... nature , which must be resolv- ed by the successful playwright ; his prescriptive assumptions are primarily technical in nature . Shortly before Corneille published his discourses in 1660 , 1'Abbe d'Aubignac had set down his guidebook ...
... nature , which must be resolv- ed by the successful playwright ; his prescriptive assumptions are primarily technical in nature . Shortly before Corneille published his discourses in 1660 , 1'Abbe d'Aubignac had set down his guidebook ...
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... nature of acts and scenes , and the peculiar characteristics of recits and monologues and of such rhetorical devices as stichomythia , sentence , and repetition . In a third section , he examines the adaptation of the plays to the ...
... nature of acts and scenes , and the peculiar characteristics of recits and monologues and of such rhetorical devices as stichomythia , sentence , and repetition . In a third section , he examines the adaptation of the plays to the ...
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... nature of tragedy , are not assumptions but conclusions about a specific playwright . The opposition of apparent outward control and inner chaos highlighted in the conflicts and confrontations on the stage is , however , an important ...
... nature of tragedy , are not assumptions but conclusions about a specific playwright . The opposition of apparent outward control and inner chaos highlighted in the conflicts and confrontations on the stage is , however , an important ...
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... nature of the foundation that determine in large part the nature of the building . So also the principles of tragedy are its foundation , marking both its point of departure and the general character of the edifice to be built . In the ...
... nature of the foundation that determine in large part the nature of the building . So also the principles of tragedy are its foundation , marking both its point of departure and the general character of the edifice to be built . In the ...
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.
Page 138 - Que fais-je? Où ma raison se va-t-elle égarer? Moi jalouse! et Thésée est celui que j'implore! Mon époux est vivant, et moi je brûle encore ! Pour qui? Quel est le cœur où prétendent mes vœux? Chaque mot sur mon front fait dresser mes cheveux.
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.
Page 110 - Marchons ; et dans son sein rejetons cette guerre Que sa fureur envoie aux deux bouts de la terre. Attaquons dans leurs murs ces conquérants si fiers ; Qu'ils tremblent, à leur tour, pour leurs propres foyers.
Page 135 - J'ai conçu pour mon crime une juste terreur; J'ai pris la vie en haine, et ma flamme en horreur. Je voulais en mourant prendre soin de ma gloire, Et dérober au jour une flamme si noire...