Amy Wygant: 2 books
Towards a Cultural Philology
"Phedre" and the Construction of 'Racine'
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Amy Wygant reads Racine's ""Phedre"" (1677) through an analysis of its 17th-century cultural contexts and a consideration of its subsequent reception history. She explores the construction of Racinian language as ""musical"", the poetics of the Racinian...
Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France
Stages and Histories, 1553–1797
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Bringing together the previously disparate fields of historical witchcraft, reception history, poetics, and psychoanalysis, this innovative study shows how the glamour of the historical witch, a spell that she cast, was set on a course, over a span of three hundred years from the sixteenth to the...