Emotions from Afar? Feeling and Considering the Pathos of Chinese Theatre from a French Perspective (1730-1830)
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: European Drama and Performance Studies
2021 – 2, n° 17. Les émotions en scène (xviie-xxie siècle) - Author: Cavaillé (Fabien)
- Pages: 291 to 314
- Journal: European Drama and Performance Studies
This essay deals with the critical reception of a 14th-century Chinese play, The Orphan of Zhao, translated in 1731 by the Jesuit Henri Joseph de Prémare and studied by writers (Voltaire, Fréron) or academics (Abel Rémusat). This violent and pathetic drama brings into question its efficiency outside China and the possibility of rousing emotions in spectators from other countries: are intercultural affects thinkable in 18th-century France?
- CLIL theme: 4028 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes de littérature comparée
- ISBN: 978-2-406-12207-4
- EAN: 9782406122074
- ISSN: 2045-8541
- DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12207-4.p.0291
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 09-22-2021
- Periodicity: Biannual
- Language: French
- Keyword: Chinese Theatre, Interculturalism, Sinophilia, Tragedy, Rhetoric, Horror, Violence, Voltaire, Fréron, Abel Rémusat
