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Author : Ofer Nordheimer Nur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Jewish men
ISBN : OCLC:1162020165
Author : Olga Freidenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135294786
First published in 1997. Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of Literature here - finally - available in English, is devoted to the origins of Greek tragedy. In it, Freidenberg develops the notion that it was the very transition from thinking based on mythological images to the kind of thinking that makes use of formal-logical concepts that resulted in the appearance of literature. With the transition from mythological thinking to conceptual thought, the content of mythological images became the texture of the new concepts. The inherited mythological forms now were reinterpreted conceptually: causalized, ethicized, generalized, abstracted. This reinterpretation, in turn, brought about poetic figurality. Folkloric material began to be differentiated from the mythological images of the past into various disciplines such as religion, philosophy, ethics, literature, and art. Yet, differentiated and reinterpreted as it was, the folkloric material remained formally preserved in poetic image, structure, and plot.
Author : Fanny Söderbäck
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438432809
Feminist Readings of Antigone collects the most interesting and provocative feminist work on the figure of Antigone, in particular looking at how she can figure into contemporary debates on the role of women in society. Contributors focus on female subjectivity and sexuality, feminist ethics and politics, questions of race and gender, psychoanalytic theory, kinship, embodiment, and tensions between the private and the public. This collection seeks to explore and spark debate about why Antigone has become such an important figure for feminist thinkers of our time, what we can learn from her, whether a feminist politics turning to this ancient heroine can be progressive or is bound to idealize the past, and why Antigone keeps entering the stage in times of political crisis and struggle in all corners of the world. Fanny Söderbäck has gathered classic work in this field alongside newly written pieces by some of the most important voices in contemporary feminist philosophy. The volume includes essays by Judith Butler, Adriana Cavarero, Tina Chanter, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva.
Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400849154
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love. He maintains that Eros, the joyful companion of Aphrodite, was a divine figure around which poets constructed a physiology of desire that functioned in specific ways within a network of social relations. Calame begins by showing how poetry and iconography gave a rich variety of expression to the concept of Eros, then delivers a history of the deity's roles within social and political institutions, and concludes with a discussion of an Eros-centered metaphysics. Calame's treatment of archaic and classical Greek institutions reveals Eros at work in initiation rites and celebrations, educational practices, the Dionysiac theater of tragedy and comedy, and in real and imagined spatial settings. For men, Eros functioned particularly in the symposium and the gymnasium, places where men and boys interacted and where future citizens were educated. The household was the setting where girls, brides, and adult wives learned their erotic roles--as such it provides the context for understanding female rites of passage and the problematics of sexuality in conjugal relations. Through analyses of both Greek language and practices, Calame offers a fresh, subtle reading of relations between individuals as well as a quick-paced and fascinating overview of Eros in Greek society at large.
Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199659470
Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema is a lively, authoritative, and innovative overview of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for cinema. Organised by topics rather than chronology, it offers detailed commentary on significant films, including both 'mainstream' and 'canonical' works by such directors as Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, and Kenneth Branagh, and such ground-breaking movies as Derek Jarman's The Tempest, Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books. Chapters on the location of films in place and time, the effect of this on characterisation, and issues of gender and political power are followed by a discussion of work that goes 'beyond Shakespeare. A filmography and suggestions for further reading complete this stimulating, fresh, and accessible account of an important aspect of Shakespeare studies.
Author : Th.C.W. Oudemans,André Lardinois
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004246539
Author : Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9004043136
Author : Drew A. Hyland
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791425096
This book explains how to read Plato, emphasizing the philosophic importance of the dramatic aspects of the dialogues, and showing that Plato is an ironic thinker and that his irony is deeply rooted in his philosophy.
Author : Vasilis Papageorgiou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443818285
Important to the essays here is the possibility of using logos without the negative, restricting and violent aspects of logos. In this respect I speak about affirmation and about tragic awareness rather than about the tragic itself or tragic conflict, as I read texts of a literary democracy that is already here, texts by Don DeLillo, Tomas Tranströmer, John Ashbery and Thanasis Valtinos, or see arrangements by Lo Snöfall. Indeed it is all about arrangements, about knowing how to affirm and doing it rather than using language and its codes in order to transcribe, however accurate this might be. Arrangements say yes, since they do not raise any absolute boundaries. The arrangement is a logos without logos: it is a cosmos, where affirming is a tragically aware cosmetics. Cosmos is neither the world nor any ordering or embellishment of this world, but an openness as the incalculable accumulation of arrangements that say yes in their awareness that they do not amount to an ontology.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 1029 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781610426367
A massive anthology of Shakespeare tragedies are collected here; included is an analysis of each major work and a biography about the life and times of Shakespeare. The following works are included in this collection: Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus The Tragedy of Coriolanus Troilus and Cressida
Author : Dan Curley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107009530
This comprehensive study establishes the importance of an unexpected genre, tragedy, in the career of the most mercurial Western poet.
Author : Jennifer Wallace
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350155107
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 : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316516256
Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.
Author : Barbara Pavlock
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781501746147
Barbara Pavlock here illuminates the significance of the erotic in the epic tradition from Alexandrian Greece to the late Renaissance by examining the transformations of two Homeric episodes, Odysseus' encounter with Nausikaa and the night-raid of Odysseus and Diomedes. In close readings of epics by Apollonius of Rhodes, Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, Ariosto, and Milton, Pavlock shows how these poets maintain the appearance of thematic continuity as they actually differentiate their own views on heroic values from those of their predecessors. Asserting that the erotic serves in the epic as a locus of criticism of social values, she traces adaptations in rhetorical devices, in larger structural patterns, and in major generic forms, as in the combination of tragic with epic models.
Author : Olga Taxidou
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 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
