Racine's Athalie or the Power of Precedent

Authors

  • M.J. Muratore

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Author Biography

M.J. Muratore

M. J. Muratore is currently Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she is a University Kemper Fellow and co-founder of the University of Missouri's Afro-Romance Institute for Languages and Literatures of the African Diaspora. Her primary focus of research is seventeenth-century French literature. She has published three books (The Evolution of the Cornelian Heroine; Cornelian Theater: The Metadramatic Dimension; Mimesis and Metatextuality in the Neo-Classical Text) and has contributed numerous scholarly articles addressing textual problematics in the works of neo-classical writers, including La Fontaine, La Bruyère, Racine, Perrault, Lafayette, and Molière. She is currently completing a book-length project entitled Expirer au féminin: Narratives of Female Dissolution in French Neo-Classicism.

Published

2021-02-25