Author : T. McAlindon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,84 MB
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521566056
This study focuses on Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, the four main tragedies and Antony and Cleopatra. Tom McAlindon argues that there were two models of nature in Renaissance culture, one hierarchical, in which everything has an appointed place, and the other contrarious, showing nature as a tense system of interacting opposites, liable to sudden collapse and transformation. This latter model informs Shakespeare's tragedy.
Author : Lourens Minnema
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 144119424X
Cross-cultural comparisons between Western, primarily Greek and Shakespearean, and Hindu views of man and human nature.
Author : Peter Holbrook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472572823
This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “heritage” reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy and self-direction. In short, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom shows how the tragic drama of Shakespeare's age addresses problems of freedom, slavery, and tyranny in ways that speak to us now.
Author : Benjamin Apthorp Gould
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 1916
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
Author : Marcus Nevitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474270441
This unique anthology presents the important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span, it traces the development of theories and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways in which different varieties of environmentalist, feminist, leftist and postcolonial thought have transformed the status of tragedy, and the idea of the tragic, for recent generations of artists, critics and thinkers. Students of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to Freud, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and 21st century theorists. Ideas of tragedy and the tragic have been central to the understanding of culture for the past two millennia. Writers and thinkers from Plato through to Martha Nussbaum have analyzed the genre of tragedy to probe the most fundamental of questions about ethics, pleasure and responsibility in the world. Does tragedy demand that we enjoy witnessing the pain of others? Does it suggest that suffering is inevitable? Is human sexuality tragic? Is tragedy even possible in a world of rolling news on a digitally connected planet, where atrocity and trauma from around the globe are matters of daily information? In order to illustrate the different ways that writers have approached the answers to such questions, this Reader collects together a comprehensive selection of canonical writings on tragedy from antiquity to the present day arranged in six sections, each featuring an introduction providing concise and informed historical and theoretical frameworks for the texts.
Author : Th.C.W. Oudemans
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 1987-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004246533
Preliminary Material /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter One: Introduction /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Two: Separative Cosmologies /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Three: Interconnected Cosmologies /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Four: Aspects of Ancient Greek Cosmology /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Five: Existing Interpretations of Sophocles' Antigone /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Six: The Stasima of Sophocles' Antigone /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Seven: The Episodes of Sophocles' Antigone /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Eight: Tragedy and some Philosophers /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Bibliography /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Index Locorum /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Index of Selected Topics /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Index of Proper NAMES /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois.
Author : William Storm
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801434570
William Storm reinterprets the concept of the tragic as both a fundamental human condition and an aesthetic process in dramatic art. He proposes an original theoretical relation between a generative and consistent tragic ground and complex characterization patterns. For Storm, it is the dismemberment of character, not the death, that is the signature mark of tragic drama. Basing his theory in the sparagmos, the dismembering rite associated with Dionysus, Storm identifies a rending tendency that transcends the ancient Greek setting and can be recognized transhistorically. The dramatic character in any era who suffers the tragic fate must do so in the manner of the ancient god of theater: the depicted self is torn apart, figuratively if not literally, psychologically if not physically. Storm argues that a newly objectified concept of the tragic can prove more useful critically and diagnostically than the traditional and more subjective tragic "vision." Further, he develops a theory of the tragic field, a model for the connective and cumulative activity that brings about the distinctive Dionysian effect upon character. His theory is supported with case studies from Agamemnon and Iphigenia in Aulis, King Lear, and The Seagull. Storm's examination of the dramatic form of tragedy and the existential questions it raises is sensitive to both their universal relevance and their historical particularity.
Author : Suzi Adams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1441172904
Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) was a Greek-French thinker best known for his work on 'autonomy' and 'human creation'. He was a political activist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, political and social thinker and economist. Recognised as a significant and original thinker of the twentieth century, his work is receiving increased scholarly attention. Notwithstanding the richness of his work, Castoriadis's terminology can prove challenging to understand. Cornelius Castoriadis: Key Concepts is the first book of its kind, providing readers with a road map to the fundamentals of his thought. International specialists in Castoriadis's works introduce and clarify the complexity of his thought through the elucidation of nineteen key concepts that are fundamental to understanding - and grappling with - his ideas. Comprehensive and accessible, the entries have been carefully selected to cover the most central aspects - psychoanalysis, sociology, philosophy, politics - and periods of his thought.
Author : Robert R. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0199656053
Robert R. Williams offers a bold new account of divergences and convergences in the work of Hegel and Nietzsche. He explores four themes - the philosophy of tragedy; recognition and community; critique of Kant; and the death of God - and explicates both thinkers' critiques of traditional theology and metaphysics.
Author : Sean Carney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442613971
The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth. Through an in-depth analysis of over sixty of their works, Sean Carney argues that their dramatic exploration of tragic experience is an integral part of their ongoing politics. This approach allows for a comprehensive rather than selective study of both the politics and poetics of their work. Carney's attention to the tragic enables him to find a common discourse among the canonical English playwrights of an older generation and representatives of the nineties generation, challenging the idea that there is a sharp generational break between these groups. Finally, Carney demonstrates that tragic experience is often denied by the social discourse of Englishness, and that these playwrights make a crucial critical intervention by dramatizing the tragic.
