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The Tragic Middle

Racine, Aristotle, Euripides

By: Richard E. Goodkin

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The Tragic Middle

Racine, Aristotle, Euripides

By: Richard E. Goodkin

This is an extraordinary book, brilliantly conceived and beautifully written. Its approach to the well-worn subject of tragic drama is quite fresh. While Goodkin draws on the best of traditional scholarship in philosophy, classical philology, and literary criticism, he argues with an intellectual style that is entirely his own. Every reader will be stimulated in his own particular way-so great is the range and power of this book-to extend the book's argument toward or from his own area of interest.'-William Levitan, Princeton University

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299130800

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9780299130800

How Do I Know Thee?

Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France

By: Richard E. Goodkin

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Theatrical and Narrative Cognition in Seventeenth-Century France

By: Richard E. Goodkin

The classical period in France presents a particularly lively battleground for the transition between oral-visual culture, on the one hand, and print culture on the other. The former depended on learning from sources of knowledge directly, in their presence, in a manner analogous to theatrical experience. The latter became characterized by the distance and abstraction of reading. How Do I Know Thee? explores the ways in which literature, philosophy, and psychology approach social cognition, or how we come to know others. Richard E. Goodkin describes a central opposition between what he calls “theatrical cognition” and “narrative cognition,” drawing both on scholarship on literary genre and mode, and also on the work of a number of philosophers and psychologists, in particular Descartes’s theory of cognition, Freudian psychoanalysis, mid‐twentieth‐century behaviorism, and the field of cognitive science. The result is a study that will be of interest not only to students of the classical period but also to those in the corresponding disciplines.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810130866

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9780810130869

The Symbolist Home and the Tragic Home

Mallarmé and Oedipus

By: Richard E. Goodkin

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The Symbolist Home and the Tragic Home

Mallarmé and Oedipus

By: Richard E. Goodkin

Tragedy as Symbolism It is the symbolic nature of Oedipus' quest which most centrally links the notions of Tragedy and Symbolism in the Oedipus Tyrannus, and that under the aegis of the concepts of home and homing.

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220

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027217238

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9789027217233

Around Proust

By: Richard E. Goodkin

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Around Proust

By: Richard E. Goodkin

A study in obsession, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu is seemingly a self-sufficient universe of remarkable internal consistency and yet is full of complex, gargantuan digressions. Richard Goodkin follows the dual spirit of the novel through highly suggestive readings of the work in its interactions with music, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cinema, and such literary genres as epic, lyric poetry, and tragedy. In exploring this fascinating intertextual network, Goodkin reveals some of Proust's less obvious creative sources and considers his influence on later art forms. The artistic and intellectual entities examined in relation to Proust's novel are extremely diverse, coming from periods ranging from antiquity (Homer, Zeno of Elea) to the 1950s (Hitchcock) and belonging to the cultures of the Greek, French, German, and English-speaking worlds. In spite of this variety of form and perspective, all of these analyses share a common methodology, that of "digressive" reading. They explore Proust's novel not only in light of such famous passages as those of the madeleine and the good-night kiss, but also on the basis of seemingly small details that ultimately take us, like the novel itself, in unexpected directions.

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Princeton University Press

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1400820596

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9781400820597

Multiple Sclerosis Therapeutics

By: Richard Rudick

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Multiple Sclerosis Therapeutics

By: Richard Rudick

This textbook examines the most important aspects of multiple sclerosis that impact on clinical trial design, on the development of new disease therapies and on patient care. The international team of contributors discuss the clinical course of multiple sclerosis, its clinical heterogeneity, the presence of subclinical disease activity which occurs during the early stages of the disease. Multiple sclerosis presents clinical challenges: from unexpected and irregular relapses to profressive deterioration.

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CRC Press

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0415805821

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9780415805827

The Tragic Middle

Racine, Aristotle, Euripides

By: Richard E. Goodkin

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Racine, Aristotle, Euripides

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Birth Marks

The Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille, and Jean Racine

By: Richard E. Goodkin

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The Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille, and Jean Racine

By: Richard E. Goodkin

Through a study of the evolution of inheritance issues in seventeen tragedies written over the course of half a century the Corneille brothers, Pierre and Thomas, and by Jean Racine, Richard E. Goodkin questions the pervasive assumption that classical tragedy, a form written for the aristocracy, is informed exclusively by an aristocratic ethic. Instead, a fresh reading of both canonical and noncanonical texts demonstrates that even the most formal body of literature produced by French classical writers expresses a conflict between a declining aristocratic hierarchy based on inherited privilege and a rising capitalistic ethic that favors competition and enterprise.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812235509

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9780812235500

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Multiple Sclerosis Therapeutics

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