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Author : Adriana E. Brook
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780299313807
An analysis of the literary and dramatic function of ritual within the world of Sophocles' plays, for scholars of Greek tragedy, ancient theater, and poetics.
Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Naomi Conn Liebler
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415086574
A unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Lear and Coriolanus as `sacrificial victims of the prevailing social order'.
Author : Manya Lempert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781108496025
This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in British and European modernism, philosophy, science and literature, and classical reception studies. It will also interest scholars studying the novel or tragedy more generally.
Author : Richard Gaskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351017015
This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing of a protagonist’s suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognized by recent critics, traditional tragedy represents suffering as incurred by avoidable and culpable mistakes of a cognitive nature. Moral redress operates in the first instance at the level of the individual agent. Linguistic redress, by contrast, operates at a higher level of generality, namely at the level of the community: its fundamental motor is the sheer expressibility of suffering in words. Against many writers on tragedy, Gaskin argues that language is competent to express pain and suffering, and that tragic literature has that expression as one its principal purposes. The definition of tragic literature in this book is expanded to include more than stage drama: the treatment stretches from the Classical and Medieval periods through to the early twentieth century. There is a special focus on Sophocles, but Gaskin takes account of most other major tragic authors in the European tradition, including Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, Seneca, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Büchner, Ibsen, Hardy, Kafka, and Mann; lesser-known areas, such as Renaissance neo-Latin tragedy, are also covered. Among theorists of tragedy, Gaskin concentrates on Aristotle and Bradley; but the contributions of numerous contemporary commentators are also assessed. Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective offers a new and genuinely interdisciplinary perspective on tragedy that will be of considerable interest both to philosophers of literature and to literary critics.
Author : Susan L. Cole
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271038128
Here is presented a new theory of the origins of tragedy, based on its perceived kinship with mourning ritual. Mourners and tragic protagonists alike journey through dangerous transitional states, confront the uncanny, express themselves in antithetical style, and, above all, enact their ambivalence toward their beloved dead. Elements common to both tragedy and mourning ritual are first identified in actual Chinese, African, and Greek funerary rites and then analyzed in tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen, O'Neill, Miller, Beckett, and Ionesco. Included is a firsthand account of exploration of the tragedy-mourning link in the rehearsal process of the great experimental theater director, Joseph Chaikin. Opening her first chapter, Dr. Cole says, "The grave is the birthplace of tragic drama and ghosts are its procreators. For tragedy is the performance of ambivalence which ghosts emblematize: what we fear in particular--the revenant, the ghost returning to haunt us--is also what we desire--the extending of life beyond the moment of death."
Author : Katherine H. Burkman
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Ritual in literature
ISBN : 9780814201466
Author : Susana Onega Jaén
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9051837542
Team research project (undertaken at Zaragoza University ), designed to explore the origins and development of contemporary, historiographic metafiction in Britain.
Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501746703
This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy is and what it means for modern-day readers. Taken together, the essays reflect profound changes in the study of Greek tragedy in the United States during this period-in particular, the increasing emphasis on myth, psychoanalytic interpretation, structuralism, and semiotics.
Author : Amit Shilo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108961936
The Oresteia is permeated with depictions of the afterlife, which have never been examined together. In this book Amit Shilo analyses their intertwined and conflicting implications. He argues for a 'poetics of multiplicity' and 'poetics of the beyond' that inform the ongoing debates over justice, fate, ethics, and politics in the trilogy. The book presents novel, textually-grounded readings of Cassandra's fate, Clytemnestra's ghost scene, mourning ritual, hero cult, and punishment by Hades. It offers a fresh perspective on the political thought of the trilogy by contrasting the ethical focus of the Erinyes and Hades with Athena's insistence on divine unity and warfare. Shedding new light on the trilogy as a whole, this book is crucial reading for students and scholars of classical literature and religion. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Richard H. Palmer
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015025384655
Comprehending tragedy has been a major philosophical and critical preoccupation in Western thought. Whether concerned with the generic problem of definition or with tragedy in the context of specific writers or periods, books with multiple and often conflicting perspectives abound. In an effort to bring order to the explanations over two millennia, Tragedy and Tragic Theory lucidly analyzes the principal ideas about tragedy from Plato to the present. Critically surveying the similarities and differences among major theories, Palmer analyzes features associated with tragedy, such as the tragic hero, katharsis, and self-recognition; develops a working definition of tragedy; and applies these ideas to a sampling of plays that present special interpretive problems. He incorporates and explores the ideas of such eminent thinkers as Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzche, Schopenhauer, Schiller, Kierkegaard, and Freud, as well as contemporary theorists, who also appear with biographical blurbs in an appendix to the volume along with an extensive bibliography. By examining both tragedy and the theoretical responses to tragedy, this study demonstrates that the definition of tragedy depends on the meaning perceived by an audience rather than on a structured stimulus independent of response; yet, it does not abandon the possibility of isolating fixed defining characteristics. The audience response approach provides a framework for analyzing earlier theories. Systematically developed, the study is equally valuable as a text in drama and criticism or as a convenient reference tool to drama theory and theorists.
Author : Ato Quayson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211484
" . . . a sophisticated and thoughtful study." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A very impressive work . . . in the concreteness of its research documentation as well as in its theoretical scope, this study brings a truly innovative dimension to African literary scholarship, and indeed to the whole field of African studies." —Abiola Irele, Ohio State University "The discussion reveals a combination of formidable analytical and critical strength with a refreshingly open-minded and sensible approach to his field." —Karin Barber, University of Birmingham
Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470693261
Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study Examines tragedy’s relationship to democracy, religion, and myth Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices Includes detailed readings of selected plays
Author : Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9004043136
Author : Charles Lowe,Henry Wilder Foote,John Hopkins Morison,Henry H. Barber,James De Normandie,Joseph Henry Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Unitarianism
ISBN : CORNELL:31924057354015
