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Rosenstock-Murav, Penelope
Dubreuil, Laurent
Greenberg, Mitchell
Christiansen, Morten
2024-10-16T20:19:43Z
2024-10-16T20:19:43Z
2023-12
ProQuest Submission ID: 14107
ProQuest Publication ID: 30813709
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/115741
http://doi.org/10.7298/pmqz-vh43
16454730
208 pages
Metatheater in the French Baroque argues that the device of metatheater offers opportunities to investigate the play’s understanding of itself and its boundaries, or lack thereof. Each chapter focuses on a different play that both embodies and defies characteristics of the French Baroque, as well as rules imposed upon the theater at the time: Jean Racine’s Andromaque, Jean de Rotrou’s Le Véritable Saint Genest, and Monsieur de Monléon’s Le Thyeste. This thesis takes up metatheatrical moments to examine the form of the play as indicative of its beyond—beyond the experience of the cogito as a mode of being, beyond modes of spectatorship that would support absolute power, and beyond modes of relating to the play as an object that causes a predictable effect on the body. Using more recent understandings of the relations between mind and brain in cognitive science, this project explores how this expansion of the play beyond itself includes the human organism. In analyzing metatheater with Early Modern thought, neurophenomenology, cognitive linguistics, enactive theories of mind, and also theories of formalism, politics, aesthetics and violence, this thesis brings together literary studies and cognitive science in a way that inquires not only into the mind but also other issues important to the Baroque, while rethinking the place of the body-mind in literary analysis.
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Cognitive Science
Comparative Literature
French literature
Literature
Philosophy of Mind
Romance Literature
Metatheater in the French Baroque: The Boundaries of Cognition, the Power of Spectacle, and the Horror of Violence
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Romance Studies
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Rosenstock-Murav, Penelope
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