Archive Feelings (eBook)

A Theory of Greek Tragedy

Telo Mario Telo (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
322 Seiten
Ohio State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8142-8081-2 (ISBN)

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Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us from tragic suffering, or does the proximity to death tap into something more primal? Aristotle proposed catharsis, an emotional cleansing-or, in later interpretations, a sense of equilibrium-as tragedy's outcome, and Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, grand theorists of the forces of anti-mastery in human and nonhuman existence, surprisingly agreed. Notwithstanding this deferral to Aristotle, their theorizations of the death drive-together with Jacques Derrida's notion of the archive as a place of conservation that inevitably fails-provide the groundwork for a radically new way of understanding tragic aesthetics. With bold readings of thirteen plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, including the Oedipus cycle, the Oresteia, Medea, and Bacchae; an eclectic synthesis of Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Zizek, Deleuze, and other critical theorists; and an engagement with art, architecture, and film, Mario Telo s Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy locates Greek tragedy s aesthetic allure beyond catharsis in a vertiginous sense of giddy suspension, in a spiral of life and death that resists equilibrium, stabilization, and all forms of normativity. In so doing, Telo forges a new model of tragic aesthetics. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-8142-8081-1 / 0814280811
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8142-8081-2 / 9780814280812