Principles Of Tragedy

Author : Geoffrey Brereton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000588477

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Principles of Tragedy by Geoffrey Brereton Pdf

What is tragedy? What does the term imply? The word had outgrown its original context of literature and art and acquired wider and looser meanings. Originally published in 1968, Dr Brereton seeks to establish the basis of a definition which will hold good on various planes and over a wide range of dramatic and other literature. Various theories are examined, beginning with Aristotle and taking in the Marxist interpretation and the two main religious theories of the sacrificial hero and the built-in conflict in fallen human nature. These theories are tested out on representative works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen, Beckett and others, and the findings which emerge are developed in the course of the book. This is conceived as a re-exploration of a widely debated subject in the light of a few clear basic principles. The result is a lucid study which will be especially valuable for students of literature and drama.

Author : Geoffrey Brereton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:79037346

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Principles Of Tragedy by Geoffrey Brereton Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544217579

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The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle Pdf

In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama - comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play - as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes: 1. Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. 2. Difference of goodness in the characters. 3. Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. In examining its "first principles," Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2) genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions."

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781425000950

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Poetics by Aristotle Pdf

Analyzing the poetic genres of his own day, particularly epic and tragedy, Aristotle sets forth a comprehensive theory of the poetic art. In this seminal and highly influential work of ancient literary criticism, Aristotle discusses poetry's esthetic function as well as its emotional value, revealing at the same time the basic principles of literary art and giving practical hints to the poet.

Author : Florence Yost Humphries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025652319

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The Principles of Tragedy in Their Application to the Novel with Especial Reference to "Clarissa Harlowe." by Florence Yost Humphries Pdf

Author : Brian Kulick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000291513

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How Greek Tragedy Works by Brian Kulick Pdf

How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring about a deeper understanding of how and why to engage with these enduring plays. Brian Kulick dispels the trepidation that many readers feel with regard to classical texts by equipping them with ways in which they can unpack the hidden meanings of these plays. He focuses on three of the key texts of Greek theatre: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Euripides' The Bacchae, and Sophocles' Electra, and uses them to tease out the core principles of the theatre-making and storytelling impulses. By encouraging us to read between the lines like this, he also enables us to read these and other Greek tragedies as artists' manifestos, equipping us not only to understand tragedy itself, but also to interpret what the great playwrights had to say about the nature of plays and drama. This is an indispensable guide for anyone who finds themselves confronted with tackling the Greek classics, whether as a reader, scholar, student, or director.

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781524747954

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Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us by Simon Critchley Pdf

From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own. The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us, in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.

Author : Martha Husain
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791489796

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Ontology and the Art of Tragedy by Martha Husain Pdf

Argues for a reading of the Poetics in light of the Metaphysics.

Author : Michelle Zerba
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400859382

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Tragedy and Theory by Michelle Zerba Pdf

Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict. Isolating the centrality of conflict in twentieth-century definitions of tragedy, Professor Zerba discusses the efforts of modern critics to locate in Aristotle's Poetics the origins of this focus on agon. Through a study of ethical and political ideas formative of the Poetics, she demonstrates why Aristotle and his Renaissance and Neoclassical beneficiaries exclude conflict from their accounts of tragedy. The agonistic element, the book argues, first emerges in dramatic criticism in nineteenth-century Romantic theories of the sublime and, more influentially, in Hegel's lectures on drama and history. This turning point in the history of speculation about tragedy is examined with attention to a dynamic between the systematic aims of theory and the subversive conflicts of tragic plays. In readings of various Classical and Renaissance dramatists, Professor Zerba reveals that strife in tragedy undermines expectations of coherence, closure, and moral stability, on which theory bases its principles of dramatic order. From Aristotle to Hegel, the philosophical interest in securing these principles determines attitudes toward conflict. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Ari Hirvonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1910761095

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Ethics of Tragedy by Ari Hirvonen Pdf

Ari Hirvonen's profound analysis of Greek tragedies, especially refugee tragedies and Sophocles' Oedipus-trilogy, that presents the sense and ethics of tragedy in a time of rapacious capitalism and ecocatastrophe.

Author : Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs
Publisher : Gegensatz Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781621307778

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The Essence of Ancient Tragedy by Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs Pdf

An elaboration of Hegel's interpretation of Sophocles' Antigone by one of Hegel's own students, first published in German in 1827.

Author : Ruth Scodel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139493499

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An Introduction to Greek Tragedy by Ruth Scodel Pdf

This book provides an accessible introduction for students and anyone interested in increasing their enjoyment of Greek tragic plays. Whether readers are studying Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply interested in reading a Greek play, this book will help them to understand and enjoy this challenging and rewarding genre. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy provides background information, helps readers appreciate, enjoy and engage with the plays themselves, and gives them an idea of the important questions in current scholarship on tragedy. Ruth Scodel seeks to dispel misleading assumptions about tragedy, stressing how open the plays are to different interpretations and reactions. In addition to general background, the book also includes chapters on specific plays, both the most familiar titles and some lesser-known plays - Persians, Helen and Orestes - in order to convey the variety that the tragedies offer readers.

Author : Samuel Henry Butcher,Aristotle,John Gassner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1951-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486200426

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Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art by Samuel Henry Butcher,Aristotle,John Gassner Pdf

Best translation of one of the most influential books in all history. Greek and English on facing pages, plus Butcher's famed 300-page exposition and interpretation of Aristotle's ideas. Seminal discussions of art and morality, poetic truth, much more.

Author : Edwin Wong
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781525537561

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The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy by Edwin Wong Pdf

WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events. In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong? Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O’Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow’s theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return.

Author : Hélène E. Bilis,Ellen McClure
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781603295321

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Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy by Hélène E. Bilis,Ellen McClure Pdf

Tragedy has been reborn many times since antiquity. Seventeenth-century French playwrights composed tragedies marked by neoclassical aesthetics and the divine-right absolutism of the Grand Siècle. But their works also speak to the modern imagination, inspiring reactions from Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault; adaptations and reworkings by Césaire and Kushner; and new productions by francophone and anglophone directors. This volume addresses both the history of French neoclassical tragedy--its audiences, performance practice, and development as a genre--and the ideas these works raise, such as necessity, free will, desire, power, and moral behavior in the face of limited choices. Essays demonstrate ways to teach the plays through a variety of lenses, such as performance, spectatorship, aesthetics, rhetoric, and affect. The book also explores postcolonial engagement, by writers and directors both in and outside France, with these works.