A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Enlightenment

Author : Mitchell Greenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
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Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474288057

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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 : Mitchell Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Tragedy
ISBN : 1474208207

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Author : Mitchell Greenberg,Rebecca Bushnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia,Rebecca Bushnell
Publisher : Cultural Histories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Naomi Conn Liebler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350155077

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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 : Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474288073

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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 : Audrey Horning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350226678

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment by Audrey Horning Pdf

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods. The objects explored in this volume –from scientific instrumentation and Baroque paintings to slave ships and shackles –encapsulate the contradictory impulses of the age. The entwined forces of capitalism and colonialism created new patterns of consumption, facilitated by innovations in maritime transport, new forms of exchange relations, and the exploitation of non-Western peoples and lands. The world of objects in the Enlightenment reveal a Western material culture profoundly shaped by global encounters. 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. Audrey Horning is Professor at William & Mary, USA, and at Queen's University Belfast, UK. Volume 4 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

Author : Naomi Conn Liebler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Mechele Leon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350135451

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment by Mechele Leon Pdf

French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, 'the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national inclinations, and to give a new energy to all the passions'. During the Enlightenment, the advancement of radical ideas along with the emergence of the bourgeois class contributed to a renewed interest in theatre's efficacy, informed by philosophy yet on behalf of politics. While the 18th century saw a growing desire to define the unique and specific features of a nation's drama, and audiences demanded more realistic portrayals of humanity, theatre is also implicated in this age of revolutions. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment examines these intersections, informed by the writings of key 18th-century philosophers. Richly illustrated with 45 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

Author : Jennifer Wallace,Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Jennifer Wallace
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Theresa Coletti,Jody May Enders,John T. Sebastian,Carol Symes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1474208223

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

Author : Elizabeth Kraft
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350187740

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A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment by Elizabeth Kraft Pdf

This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor, provoking both laughter and sympathetic tears. Comic expression in the Enlightenment reflects continuities and engagements with the comedy of previous eras; it is also noted for new forms and preoccupations engendered by the cultural, philosophical, and political concerns of the time, including democratizing revolutions, increasing secularization, and growing emphasis on individualism. Discussions emphasize the period's stage comedy and acknowledge comic expression in various forms of print media including the emerging literary form we now know as the novel. Contributions from scholars reflect a wide variety of interests in the field of 18th-century studies, and the inclusion of a generous number of illustrations throughout demonstrates that the period's visual culture was also an important part of the Enlightenment comic landscape. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter and ethics. These eight different approaches to Enlightenment comedy add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.

Author : Jody Enders,Theresa Coletti,John T. Sebastian,Carol Symes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 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.