Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner c

Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays by Corneil

This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in litera