A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Empire

Author : Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia,Rebecca Bushnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474288071

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire by Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia,Rebecca Bushnell Pdf

How have ideas of the tragic influenced Western culture? How has tragedy been shaped by its social and cultural conditions? In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. Extending far beyond the established aesthetic tradition, the volumes describe the forms tragedy takes to represent human conflict and suffering, and how it engages with matters of philosophy, society, politics, religion and gender. Volume 5 covers the period 1800-1920.

Author : Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350155060

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire by Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia Pdf

This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the recognition that tragedy did not die with Romanticism, as George Steiner famously argued over half a century ago, but rather mutated and dispersed, converging into a variety of unstable, productive forms both on the stage and off. In turn, the tragic as a concept and mode transformed itself under the pressure of multiple social, historical and political-ideological phenomena. This volume therefore deploys a narrative centred on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries. The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Author : Jennifer Wallace,Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Tragedy
ISBN : 1474208193

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire by Jennifer Wallace,Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia Pdf

Author : Carolyn White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350226692

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry by Carolyn White Pdf

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine made. The revolution in making, and in consuming the things which were made, impacted on lives at every scale –from body to home to workplace to city to nation. Beyond the explosion in technology, scientific knowledge, manufacturing, trade, and museums, changes in class structure, politics, ideology, and morality all acted to transform the world of objects. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Carolyn White is Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

Author : Naomi Conn Liebler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350155008

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age by Naomi Conn Liebler Pdf

In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period and across geographic, political, and social references. They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Author : Rebecca W. Bushnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Tragedy
ISBN : 1474288146

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A Cultural History of Tragedy by Rebecca W. Bushnell Pdf

Author : Naomi Conn Liebler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Tragedy
ISBN : 1474208215

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age by Naomi Conn Liebler Pdf

Author : Mitchell Greenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350155091

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment by Mitchell Greenberg Pdf

The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social and economic changes that altered European society's cultural life. Tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s. The dominance of France's military and cultural prestige during this period is reflected in the important, almost exclusive, space dedicated in this volume to the French stage. This book covers the tragedies of France's two greatest playwrights - Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and Jean Racine (1639-99) - which would dominate not only the French stage but, through translations and adaptations, became the model of tragic theater across Europe, finding imitators in England (Dryden), Italy (Alfieri) and as far afield as Russia. This dominance continued well into the 18th century with the triumph of Voltaire's tragedies. This volume also examines how the writings of Diderot and Lessing changed the direction of theatre and how after the Revolution, in the writings of Goethe, Shiller, Hegel, tragedy and the tragic were reimagined and became the sign of European modernity. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Author : Michael Falk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031499593

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Romanticism and the Contingent Self by Michael Falk Pdf

Author : Mitchell Greenberg,Rebecca Bushnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474288057

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment by Mitchell Greenberg,Rebecca Bushnell Pdf

How have ideas of the tragic influenced Western culture? How has tragedy been shaped by its social and cultural conditions? In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. Extending far beyond the established aesthetic tradition, the volumes describe the forms tragedy takes to represent human conflict and suffering, and how it engages with matters of philosophy, society, politics, religion and gender. Volume 4 covers the period 1650-1800.

Author : Jennifer Wallace
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350155114

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age by Jennifer Wallace Pdf

In this book leading scholars come together to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging overview of tragedy in theatre and other media from 1920 to the present. The 20th century is often considered to have witnessed the death of tragedy as a theatrical genre, but it was marked by many tragic events and historical catastrophes, from two world wars and genocide to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the anticipation and onset of climate change. The authors in this volume wrestle with this paradox and consider the degree to which the definitions, forms and media of tragedy were transformed in the modern period and how far the tragic tradition-updated in performance-still spoke to 20th- and 21st-century challenges. While theater remains the primary focus of investigation in this strikingly illustrated book, the essays also cover tragic representation-often re-mediated, fragmented and provocatively questioned-in film, art and installation, photography, fiction and creative non-fiction, documentary reporting, political theory and activism. Since 24/7 news cycles travel fast and modern crises cross borders and are reported across the globe more swiftly than in previous centuries, this volume includes intercultural encounters, various forms of hybridity, and postcolonial tragic representations. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Author : Jody Enders,Theresa Coletti,John T. Sebastian,Carol Symes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350154940

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages by Jody Enders,Theresa Coletti,John T. Sebastian,Carol Symes Pdf

For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn't be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world's most enduring art forms. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Author : Emily Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350154872

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity by Emily Wilson Pdf

In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented. Tragedy was consistently seen as the most serious of all dramatic genres; these essays trace a sequence of different visions of what the most serious kind of dramatic story might be, and the most appropriate ways of telling those stories on stage. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual, and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Author : Juanita Ruys,Clare Monagle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350091764

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A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age by Juanita Ruys,Clare Monagle Pdf

Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature, music, and drama, we find an increasing emphasis on the arousal of individual emotions and their acceptance as a means towards devotion. In religion, we see a move from the ascetic regulation of emotions to the affective piety of the later medieval period that valued the believer's identification with the Passion of Christ and the sorrow of Mary. In science and medicine, the nature and causes of emotions, their role in constituting the human person, and their impact on the same became a subject of academic inquiry. Emotions also played an increasingly important public role, evidenced in populace-wide events such as conversion and the strategies of rulership. Between 350 and 1300, emotions were transformed from something to be transcended into a location for meditation upon what it means to be human.

Author : Hana Worthen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030440664

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Humanism, Drama, and Performance by Hana Worthen Pdf

This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and performance history and studies today. From Aristotle onward, theatre has been regulated by three strains of critical poiesis: the literary, segregating theatre and the practices of the spectacular from the humanizing work attributed to the book and to the internality of reading; the dramatic, approving the address of theatrical performance only to the extent that it instrumentalizes literary value; and the theatrical, assimilating performance to the conjunction of literary and liberal values. These values have been used to figure not only the work of theatre, but also the propriety of the audience as a figure for its socializing work, along a privileged dualism from the aestheticized ensemble—harmonizing actor, character, and spectator to the essentialized drama—to the politicized assembly, theatre understood as an agonistic gathering.