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Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489683
Explores Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and the tragic tradition, including significant archival material not seen before.
Author : Hans-Thies Lehmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317276289
This comprehensive, authoritative account of tragedy is the culmination of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking contributions to theatre and performance scholarship. It is a major milestone in our understanding of this core foundation of the dramatic arts. From the philosophical roots and theories of tragedy, through its inextricable relationship with drama, to its impact upon post-dramatic forms, this is the definitive work in its field. Lehmann plots a course through the history of dramatic thought, taking in Aristotle, Plato, Seneca, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lacan, Shakespeare, Schiller, Holderlin, Wagner, Maeterlinck, Yeats, Brecht, Kantor, Heiner Müller and Sarah Kane.
Author : Sean Carney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000143225
Arguing that Brecht’s aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht’s aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twentieth century: Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Frederic Jameson, Theodor W. Adorno and Raymond Williams. Re-reading Brecht through the lens of post-structuralism, Sean Carney asserts that there is a Lacanian Brecht and a Derridean Brecht: the result of which is a new Brecht whose vital importance for the present is located in decentred theories of subjectivity. Brecht and Critical Theory maps the many ways in which Brechtian thinking pervades critical thought today, informing the critical tools and stances that make up the contemporary study of aesthetics.
Author : Carney, Otis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780415356572
Author : James Moran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350139800
What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locations during the 20th century? Partly motivated by the urgency of our current situation in an age of ecocidal crisis, Modern Tragedy encompasses a variety of drama from throughout the 20th century. James Moran begins this book with John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea (1904), which shows how environmental awareness might be expressed through tragic drama. Moran also looks at Brecht's reworking of Synge's drama in the 1937 play Señora Carrar's Rifles, and situates Brecht's script in the light of the theatre practitioner's broader ideas about tragedy. Brecht's tragic thinking – informed by Hegel and Marx – is contrasted with the Schopenhauerian approach of Samuel Beckett. The volume goes on to examine theatre makers whose ideas were partly motivated by applying an understanding of the tragic narrative of Synge's Riders to the Sea to postcolonial contexts. Looking at Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin (1954), and J.P. Clark's The Goat (1961), Modern Tragedy explores how tragedy, a form that is often associated with regressive assumptions about hegemony, might be rethought, and how aspects of the tragic may coincide with the experiences and concerns of authors and audiences of colour.
Author : Olga Taxidou
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748666058
This powerful reinterpretation of Greek tragedy focuses on the performative - the physical and civic - dimension of tragedy. It challenges the idealist, humanist, and universalist approaches that have informed our most cherished philosophical, psychoanalytical, and modern interpretations of Greek tragedy and, in doing so, asks us to renew our relation to these works and to our literary and philosophical inheritance.The book reassesses tragic form in relation to Athenian democracy and links it with a performative discourse that both excludes the feminine and relies on civic and private forms of mourning. At the same time, it explores the centrality of tragedy for thinkers of Modernity such as Holderlin, Nietzsche, Hegel, Freud, Brecht and Benjamin. Through a persuasive analysis of both classical theorists - Plato and Aristotle - and modern theorists - Benjamin, Lacan, Kristeva, Derrida and Butler - the book significantly shifts the emphasis from a Sophoclean model of tragedy to a Euripidean one. Close readings of the performance aspects of Greek play-texts help illuminate these ideas.Features* Compelling new interpretation of Greek tragedy * Performance based * Attentive to issues of gender
Author : Annamaria Cascetta
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783081615
The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘Modern European Tragedy’ examines the consciousness of this era, drawing a picture of the development of the tragic through an in-depth analysis of some of the twentieth century’s most outstanding texts.
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : HarperVia
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : UCAL:B3440042
A full-length play dealing with the German intellectuals' abandonment of the East German workers during their rebellion in 1953. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
Author : Walter Kaufmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691020051
A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives.
Author : Astrid Oesmann
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791463850
Examines Brecht's use of the theatre as a public arena for political change.
Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801887399
This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics. Seven new essays—as well as eight essays originally published in a New Literary History special issue on tragedy—address important, previously neglected areas of tragedy and postcolonial criticism. The new material explores the tragic dimensions of popular culture, the relationship between tragedy and pity, and feminism's avoidance of the tragic, and includes an incisive history of tragic theory. Classic and cutting-edge, this collection offers a provocative, accessible, and comprehensive treatment of tragedy and tragic theory. Contributors: Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich; Stanley Corngold, Princeton University; Simon Critchley, University of Essex; Joshua Foa Dienstag, University of California, Los Angeles; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University; Page duBois, University of California, San Diego; Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester; Rita Felski, University of Virginia; Simon Goldhill, Cambridge University; Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania; Michel Maffesoli, University of Paris (V); Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago; Timothy J. Reiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh
Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199651634
This volume explores performances of Greek tragedies in Germany since 1800 as responses to particular political, social and cultural milestones, shedding light on how, in a constantly changing political and cultural climate, they influenced the evolving cultural identity of the educated middle class over that period
Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781452915616
Author : Tom Kuhn,David Barnett,Theodore F. Rippey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780985195656
The leading publication on Brecht, his work, and topics of interest to him; this annual volume documents the International Brecht Society's 2016 symposium, Recycling Brecht.
Author : Olga Taxidou
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1399511092
This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance. Through a series of events / instances / poses that engage visual, literary and performing arts, the modernist love/hate relationship with classical Greek tragedy is read as contributing to a modernist notion of theatricality, one that follows a double motion, revising both our understanding of Greek tragedy and of modernism itself. Isadora Duncan, Edward Gordon Craig, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, H. D, and Bertolt Brecht and their various, sometimes successful sometimes failed experiments in creating a modernist aesthetic in performing, dancing, translating, designing Greek tragedies, sometimes for the stage and sometimes for the page, are presented as radical experiments in and gestures towards the autonomy of performance. In the process the artists of the theatre themselves - the actor, the designer, the director, the playwright - are reconfigured and given a lineage and genealogy, through this modernist revision of tragedy and the tragic not as as a philosophical or philological tradition, but as a performance practice.
