Amy Wygant
Biographic Data
| ID | 5639635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Wygant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wygant |
| SIGNATURE | WYGANT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France
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 eighteenth centuries, to become a generally broadcast glamour of appearance. Something that a woman does, that is, became something that she has. The an…
Jean Racine 1699–1999
Actes réunis par Gilles Declercq et Michèle Rosellini. Paris, PUF, 2003. 800 pp. Pb €35.00. Now that publishing houses favour ‘history’ and often refuse point-blank to consider manuscripts deemed to be ‘literary criticism’, the author, whose death has been a constantly recurring event since Mallarmé, is back. Biography is flavour of the month. Under these conditions, those interested in posing again or still Foucault's old question, ‘What is an a…
Fire, Sacrifice, Iphigénie
Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide (1774), his first opera written for the French stage, never settled on an ending. In order to analyse the historical conditions of this musical reluctance, this argument reads the opera's literary source, Jean Racine's Iphigénie , developing a three-fold link: to the fireworks that followed the first performance of Racine's tragedy in 1674 in the garden of Versailles, to the discovery in 1774 by Joseph Priestley of oxy…
L'Écriture de l'enchantement
Journal Article L'Écriture de l'enchantement: magie et magiciens dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle Get access Amy Wygant Amy Wygant University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 239–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kni086 Published: 01 April 2005
Le Tragique
Journal Article Le Tragique Get access Amy Wygant Amy Wygant University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 59, Issue 3, July 2005, Page 439, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kni204 Published: 01 July 2005
Leo Spitzer's Racine
The reception history of Racinian tragedy veers off in one of its more curious directions when, in 1948, Leo Spitzer announces that Phedre is the ideal type of a baroque tragedy.' The essay which contains this statement confronts what has historically been the most frequently criticized passage in the entire Racinian corpus. Indeed, its eighteenth-century readers made of the recit de Theramene, the 95-line narration of the circumstances of the de…
Goin' Home
Who has never been taunted, tantalized, chagrined and annoyed by the music that settles itself in the head and obstinately refuses to be forgotten? It is the wisp of a popular tune, the theme song from Rawhide, the clarinet part of the Mozart quintet. It will not leave: it accompanies us on our daily rounds like some secret sharer, yet rarely is it complete. In its very obsessive return, it participates in forgetfulness, and that is part of its a…
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Goin' Home
Who has never been taunted, tantalized, chagrined and annoyed by the music that settles itself in the head and obstinately refuses to be forgotten? It is the wisp of a popular tune, the theme song from Rawhide, the clarinet part of the Mozart quintet. It will not leave: it accompanies us on our daily rounds like some secret sharer, yet rarely is it complete. In its very obsessive return, it participates in forgetfulness, and that is part of its a…
Leo Spitzer's Racine
The reception history of Racinian tragedy veers off in one of its more curious directions when, in 1948, Leo Spitzer announces that Phedre is the ideal type of a baroque tragedy.' The essay which contains this statement confronts what has historically been the most frequently criticized passage in the entire Racinian corpus. Indeed, its eighteenth-century readers made of the recit de Theramene, the 95-line narration of the circumstances of the de…
L'Écriture de l'enchantement
Journal Article L'Écriture de l'enchantement: magie et magiciens dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle Get access Amy Wygant Amy Wygant University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 239–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kni086 Published: 01 April 2005
Le Tragique
Journal Article Le Tragique Get access Amy Wygant Amy Wygant University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 59, Issue 3, July 2005, Page 439, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kni204 Published: 01 July 2005
Jean Racine 1699–1999
Actes réunis par Gilles Declercq et Michèle Rosellini. Paris, PUF, 2003. 800 pp. Pb €35.00. Now that publishing houses favour ‘history’ and often refuse point-blank to consider manuscripts deemed to be ‘literary criticism’, the author, whose death has been a constantly recurring event since Mallarmé, is back. Biography is flavour of the month. Under these conditions, those interested in posing again or still Foucault's old question, ‘What is an a…
Fire, Sacrifice, Iphigénie
Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide (1774), his first opera written for the French stage, never settled on an ending. In order to analyse the historical conditions of this musical reluctance, this argument reads the opera's literary source, Jean Racine's Iphigénie , developing a three-fold link: to the fireworks that followed the first performance of Racine's tragedy in 1674 in the garden of Versailles, to the discovery in 1774 by Joseph Priestley of oxy…
Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France
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 eighteenth centuries, to become a generally broadcast glamour of appearance. Something that a woman does, that is, became something that she has. The an…
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