Le Sacré en question

Bible et mythes sur les scènes du XVIIIe siècle

Volume editor Béatrice Ferrier Series edited by Jacques Berchtold Series edited by Catriona Seth

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Extent: 371 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts, Religious Studies

Series: Le dix-huitième siècle

Series volume number: 14, 114

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(July 2015)

ISBN: 9782812432637

5.91 x 8.66 inches

Price: $49.00

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While the Bible and its myths are the object of theological and philosophical reflection, has Christian mythology been deconsecrated on the French and European stage? This work studies the ways in which dramatic, lyrical, and pictorial processes have contributed to a transformation and redefinition of the sacred.


While the Bible and its myths are the object of theological and philosophical reflection, has Christian mythology been deconsecrated on the French and European stage? This work studies the ways in which dramatic, lyrical, and pictorial processes have contributed to a transformation and redefinition of the sacred.

  • Volume editor Béatrice Ferrier
  • Series edited by Jacques Berchtold
  • Series edited by Catriona Seth

Review - French Tandis que la Bible et les mythes font l'objet de reflexions theologiques ou philosophiques, le merveilleux chretien serait-il desacralise sur les scenes francaises et europeennes ? Cet ouvrage reconsidere la question en etudiant comment les procedes dramatiques, lyriques et picturaux contribuent a transformer et a redefinir le sacre. Il analyse les deplacements et glissements du sacre chretien avant d'interroger la facon dont le public interprete les codes de la representation comme formes de profanation ou de resacralisation. Le sacre est cependant surtout renouvele par le contexte historique et ideologique, par l'emergence de mythes laiques issus du detournement des sujets bibliques via une scene theatrale concue comme vecteur de pensee.