A Companion to Tragedy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bushnell, Rebecca

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. * Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity * Features 28 essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy * Broad in its scope and ambition, it considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history * Offers a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy and demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405141420
• Artikelnr.: 38405711

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Bushnell is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her previous publications include Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays (1988), Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance (1990), A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice (1996), and Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
Rebecca Bushnell
Tragic Thought
Part I Tragedy and the Gods 5
1 Greek Tragedy and Ritual 7
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
2 Tragedy and Dionysus 25
Richard Seaford
Part II Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis 39
3 Aristotle's Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction 41
Kathy Eden
4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel's Theory of Tragedy 51
Mark W. Roche
5 Nietzsche and Tragedy 68
James I. Porter
6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan 88
Julia Reinhard Lupton
Part III Tragedy and History 107
7 Tragedy and City 109
Deborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub
8 Tragedy and Materialist Thought 128
Hugh Grady
9 Tragedy and Feminism 145
Victoria Wohl
Tragedy in History
Part IV Tragedy in Antiquity 161
10 Tragedy and Myth 163
Alan H. Sommerstein
11 Tragedy and Epic 181
Ruth Scodel
12 Tragedy in Performance 198
Michael R. Halleran
13 The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles and Social Functions 215
Claude Calame, translated by Dan Edelstein
14 Women in Greek Tragedy 234
Sheila Murnaghan
15 Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy 251
Ralph M. Rosen
16 Roman Tragedy 269
Alessandro Schiesaro
Part V Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy 287
17 The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of English
Renaissance Tragedy 289
Rebecca Bushnell
18 Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State 307
Matthew H. Wikander
19 English Revenge Tragedy 328
Michael Neill
20 Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Calderön 351
Margaret R. Greer
Part VI Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy 371
21 Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France 373
Richard E. Goodkin
22 French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille/Racine 393
Mitchell Greenberg
23 Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors: Remaking
British Tragedy 411
Jeffrey N. Cox
24 German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Büchner
435
Simon Richter
25 French Romantic Tragedy 452
Barbara T. Cooper
Part VII Tragedy and Modernity 469
26 Modern Theater and the Tragic in Europe 471
Gail Finney
27 Tragedy in the Modern American Theater 488
Brenda Murphy
28 Using Tragedy against its Makers: Some African and Caribbean Instances
505
Timothy J. Reiss
Index 537

Rezensionen

"The Blackwell Companions series is intended to orientate thebeginning student in new fields of study while providing thegraduate and experienced undergraduate with current and newdirections. The present volume serves these objectives well....Bushnell's edition gives the reader a sense of the scope andfertility of the most current scholarship on the genre."(Journal of Hellenic Studies, February 2009)

"These essays, as would be expected from their authors,manifest a high standard of scholarship and familiarity withcurrent understandings.... The volume has a place on the desk ofevery reference librarian at the college and university level."Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"The arrangement of the contents and an index thatprovides coverage of all the essays, allows immediate targeting ofspecific topics and quick referencing, whilst in its entirety thebook provides an excellent survey of tragedy as it is currentlystudied. Aimed primarily at undergraduates and useful topostgraduates needing to orientate themselves in the scholarship ofthis area, this title is a useful addition to the academiclibrary." Reference Reviews