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'Le theatre change et represente': Lecture critique des oeuvres dramatiques du Marquis de Sade

Dangeville, Sylvie C.

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Title
'Le theatre change et represente': Lecture critique des oeuvres dramatiques du Marquis de Sade
Author(s)
Dangeville, Sylvie C.
Issue Date
1995
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Blake, Nancy
Department of Study
French
Discipline
French
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • Literature, Modern
  • Literature, Romance
  • Theater
Language
fre
Abstract
  • The aim of this dissertation is to re-situate the marquis de Sade's plays in the general context of the theatrical practices in Eighteenth Century France and to reconstitute the author's dramatic writing process through a study of intertextuality of each of his plays. The genetic approach used here gives further insight into Sade's writing techniques; indeed in these plays, the author is constantly re-writing himself as well as his predecessors and contemporaries. The analysis brings to light a very high degree of coherence between the author's theater, the remainder of his writings and eighteenth century French literature.
  • Furthermore, the dissertation contributes to developing a better knowledge of these hitherto neglected and unknown plays through careful scrutiny of Sade's entire correspondence and the examination of a number of unpublished documents. This process also enabled us to date more precisely a large majority of those works.
Type of Resource
text
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Copyright 1995 Dangeville, Sylvie C.

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