Ineffable Bodies

Auteur

Christine Sukic is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France and is the current President of the French Shakespeare society (Société Française Shakespeare). She has published studies on Shakespeare, George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe and Samuel Daniel and has edited or co-edited eight collections on the heroic body and representations of the immaterial. She is the author of a monograph on George Chapman's tragedies and has translated and edited Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois into French for the Pléiade series (2009). She has co-translated and co-edited Marlowe's Massacre at Paris with A.-M. Miller-Blaise, to be published by Classiques Garnier in 2025.

Texte du rabat

Ineffable Bodies focuses on early modern heroism in drama through the notion of ineffability in order to define new dramatic forms. Drawing from Vladimir Jankélévitch's studies on the ineffable, the book focuses on heroic bodies on the early modern stage as the seat of an aesthetic shift in drama.

Contenu

Introduction

Chapter 1: Disintegrations

Chapter 2: Challenging Nobility

Chapter 3: Decomposition

Chapter 4 : Controlling Heroic Bodies

Chapter 5 : The Impossible Heroic Narrative