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Present	Lectrice, Université de Dijon
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Present	Professor, Modern Languages & Literatures, Trinity University ‐ Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Arts and Humanities and French and Francophone Language and Literature

Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dramatic Theory, and French Cinema

Advanced French Grammar
French Cinema
Seventeenth-Century French Theater

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Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
Trinity University
One Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212
210-999-7554
nekstein@trinity.edu

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Articles (43)

Populating the Dramatic Universe Through Names

Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (2019)

The proper name is an almost universal feature of Western theater. With the exception of certain experimental plays — those ...

The Cornelian Ethics of Flight and The Case of Horace

Romance Notes (2016)

Flight is a simple dramatic action, one that lends itself to any number of different plots. its implied movement can ...

With What Arms Do We Fight? Possible Worlds and the ...

Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity: Selected Essays from the 44th North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Duke University, May 15-17, 2014 (2015)

Nicomède contains a manifestly imbalanced distribution of action. While we expect little action per se on stage because of the ...

Dramatic Point of View. L’École des Femmes and Le ...

Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature (2014)

The architecture of seventeenth-century French plays has always been a source of personal fascination. In this essay I propose to ...

Irony in Emmanuel Carrère’s La Moustache

The French Review (2013)

The subject of irony in film is a problematic one, in no small measure because of the assumption of referentiality ...

Sex in Rotrou’s Theater: Performance and Disorder

Orbis Litterarum (2012)

Sexual desire is ubiquitous in all theater. It follows that virtually all theatrical traditions struggle with the issue of the ...

La Pratique Ironique de l’appel à l’autorité dans ...

Pratiques de Corneille (2012)

Corneille a lié un grand nombre de péritextes à son œuvre théâtrale, dont les Préfaces, les avis « Au lecteur ...

The Theatrical Lieu de Culture within Molière’s Theater

Lieux de culture dans la France du XVIIe siècle (2012)

Molière’s theater is itself, by definition, a lieu de culture. The performance of one of his plays transforms the space ...

Performing Violence in Rotrou’s Theater

Neophilologus (2011)

Violence has a significant and varied role in the theater of Jean Rotrou. Discord and strife are natural to the ...

Rotrou’s Bélisaire: Hierarchy and Meaning

Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (2010)

Bélisaire (1643) differs significantly from the bulk of Rotrou’s theater, perhaps above all in its array of profoundly disparate features. ...

The Dramatic Transformation of Food in Tristan L'Hermite's ...

Nourritures (2010)

Tristan l'Hermite's Le Parasite, written in 1653, was an immediate and enduring success. This, his last play, was unlike anything ...

Time, Space, and the Question of Heroism in Sertorius

Neophilologus (2009)

This article examines the exceptional role Corneille gives to the dimensions of time and space in Sertorius, one of the ...

The Conversion of Polyeucte’s Félix: The Problem of Religion ...

French Forum (2009)

The relationship between religion and theater gave rise in seventeenth-century France to much discussion and dissent, commonly referred to as ...

The Trilogue in Corneille's Theater

Formes et Formations au Dix-Septième Siècle: Actes du 37e Congrès Annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 14-16 Avril 2005 (2006)

The classical stage is a locus of action and interaction conveyed through speech. The number of characters interacting on stage ...

The Odd Man Out: The Kings in Corneille's Machine ...

Romance Notes (2005)

Andromède and La Conquête de la Toison d’or have a largely unenviable status in Corneille’s oeuvre. They are often either ...

Over the Top: From the Tragic to the Comic in ...

Intersections: Actes du 35e Congrès Annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dartmouth College, 8-10 Mai 2003 (2005)

The notions of tragedy and comedy that one can intuit from the theater of Corneille are markedly different from those ...

Corneille's Absent Characters

Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (2004)

The relationship between presence and absence in theater is intertwined and complex. For Kibédi Varga, a work of art invariably ...

Knowing Irony: The Problem of Corneille

Le Savoir au XVIIe Siècle: Actes du 34e Congrès Annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, University of Virgnia, Charlottesville, 14-16 Mars 2002 (2003)

Irony and knowledge exist in a problematic relationship to each other, one that is strikingly similar to that between knowledge ...

Pompée's Absence in Corneille's 'La Mort de Pompée'

Rivista di letturature moderne e comparate (2003)

Corneille's La Mort de Pompée (1643) occupies a curious position in the playwright's oeuvre, coming as it does immediately after ...

Metaphors of Mathematics in Corneille's Theater

Neophilologus (2002)

Mathematical metaphors are a distinctive and characteristic feature of Corneille’s theater, closely tied to his dramatic aesthetics. I divide these ...

Sophonisbe's Seduction: Corneille Writing Against Mairet

Studies in Early Modern France: Strategic Rewriting (2002)

Rewriting the subjects of tragedies was so common throughout the seventeenth century as to be a defining characteristic of the ...

Women and Marriage in Corneille's Theater

La Femme au XVIIe Siècle: Actes du Colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 5-7 Octobre 2000 (2002)

Marriage is ubiquitous in Corneille's theater: there is not a single one of his plays in which marriage is not ...

Uncertainty in Corneille's Héraclius

Nottingham French Studies (2001)

Scholars agree that Héraclius (1646) occupies the extreme point of plot complication in the Cornelian oeuvre. Numerous events have occurred ...

Le Change in Corneille and Racine

Racine et/ou le Classicisme (2001)

Le Change is a concept typically associated in the seventeenth century with the baroque, with the pastoral, and with comedy. ...

Staging the Tyrant on the Seventeenth-Century French Stage

Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (1999)

The tyrant is a frequent figure of seventeenth-century theater. While not as ubiquitous as young lovers, fathers, or kings, the ...