Roland Racevskis
Biographic Data
| ID | 759058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roland Racevskis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roland |
| FAMILY NAME | Racevskis |
| SIGNATURE | RACEVSKIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Of Cannibals and Colonizers: Irony, Gender, and Ecology in Rouge Br sil
Roland Racevskis, Of Cannibals and Colonizers: Irony, Gender, and Ecology in "Rouge Brésil", Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, Postcolonial Revisions of the Early Modern (Fall - Winter, 2006), pp. 69-83
La Thébaïde de Racine: Des seuils du pouvoir aux limites de l'existence
Lors de la premiere de La Thebaide, au theâtre du Palais-Royal le 20 juin 1664, Racine etait sur le point d’amorcer une carriere illustre, mais il etait encore loin d’etre un dramaturge reconnu. Comme l’a remarque Antoine Adam, “[l]e succes ne fut pas simplement mediocre; il fut pitoyable”. Sans meme parler de la recette, qui est tombee de 370 livres pour la premiere a 130 livres pour la quatrieme representation, nous connaissons mieux les defaut…
Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama
Braider, Christopher. Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2002. Pp. 387. This wide-ranging study of the French classical era's most eminent dramatists—Corneille, Molière, and Racine—proposes a complex critical re-evaluation of the texts of canonical plays that we may think we know all too well. Through close readings and a variety of theoretical approaches, Braider b…
La Vengeance dans la litterature d'Ancien Regime
From the time of Medea, vengeance has always been the stuff of stories, and especially of tragedies. The effectiveness of this theme for storytelling is one of the continuous threads tying together the diverse group of essays that make up this fine book. As is often the case with compendia of this type, the quality of the chapters is somewhat uneven. Nevertheless, the volume as a whole is a highly valuable contribution to scholarship on early-mod…
Is a Genealogy of Violence Possible
Is a Genealogy of Violence Possible? Tassadit Yacine (bio) Translated by Roland Racevskis The attempt to study or explicate discourses on violence requires epistemological modes of questioning, the kind of abstraction that places a troubling topic at arm’s length. We have to quell the often sharp feelings that acts of violence provoke in all of us, in order to examine “coldly” the causes that have generated these facts, and not the effects, drama…
Weaving a Rope of Sand
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Weaving a Rope of Sand
Is a Genealogy of Violence Possible
Is a Genealogy of Violence Possible? Tassadit Yacine (bio) Translated by Roland Racevskis The attempt to study or explicate discourses on violence requires epistemological modes of questioning, the kind of abstraction that places a troubling topic at arm’s length. We have to quell the often sharp feelings that acts of violence provoke in all of us, in order to examine “coldly” the causes that have generated these facts, and not the effects, drama…
La Vengeance dans la litterature d'Ancien Regime
From the time of Medea, vengeance has always been the stuff of stories, and especially of tragedies. The effectiveness of this theme for storytelling is one of the continuous threads tying together the diverse group of essays that make up this fine book. As is often the case with compendia of this type, the quality of the chapters is somewhat uneven. Nevertheless, the volume as a whole is a highly valuable contribution to scholarship on early-mod…
La Thébaïde de Racine: Des seuils du pouvoir aux limites de l'existence
Lors de la premiere de La Thebaide, au theâtre du Palais-Royal le 20 juin 1664, Racine etait sur le point d’amorcer une carriere illustre, mais il etait encore loin d’etre un dramaturge reconnu. Comme l’a remarque Antoine Adam, “[l]e succes ne fut pas simplement mediocre; il fut pitoyable”. Sans meme parler de la recette, qui est tombee de 370 livres pour la premiere a 130 livres pour la quatrieme representation, nous connaissons mieux les defaut…
Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama
Braider, Christopher. Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2002. Pp. 387. This wide-ranging study of the French classical era's most eminent dramatists—Corneille, Molière, and Racine—proposes a complex critical re-evaluation of the texts of canonical plays that we may think we know all too well. Through close readings and a variety of theoretical approaches, Braider b…
Of Cannibals and Colonizers: Irony, Gender, and Ecology in Rouge Br sil
Roland Racevskis, Of Cannibals and Colonizers: Irony, Gender, and Ecology in "Rouge Brésil", Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, Postcolonial Revisions of the Early Modern (Fall - Winter, 2006), pp. 69-83
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