Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning

Olga Taxidou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2004
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9780748619870 (ISBN)

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This powerful reinterpretation of Greek tragedy focuses on the performative - the physical and civic - dimension of tragedy. It challenges the idealist, humanist, and universalist approaches that have informed our most cherished philosophical, psychoanalytical, and modern interpretations of Greek tragedy and, in doing so, asks us to renew our relation to these works and to our literary and philosophical inheritance.The book reassesses tragic form in relation to Athenian democracy and links it with a performative discourse that both excludes the feminine and relies on civic and private forms of mourning. At the same time, it explores the centrality of tragedy for thinkers of Modernity such as Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Hegel, Freud, Brecht and Benjamin. Through a persuasive analysis of both classical theorists - Plato and Aristotle - and modern theorists - Benjamin, Lacan, Kristeva, Derrida and Butler - the book significantly shifts the emphasis from a Sophoclean model of tragedy to a Euripidean one. Close readings of the performance aspects of Greek play-texts help illuminate these ideas.Features* Compelling new interpretation of Greek tragedy * Performance based * Attentive to issues of gender

Olga Taxidou is Professor Emerita of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and Visiting Professor at New York University. She is the author of The Mask: a Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig (1998, 2001), Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (2004), Modernism and Performance: Jarry to Brecht (2007) and Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality (2021). She is co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998), Post-War Cinema and Modernity: a Film Reader (2000) and The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (2018).

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1.The Allure of Antigone or Antigone and the Philosophers; 2. Oedipus/Anti-Oedipus: the Philosopher, the Actor and the Patient; 3.Trauerspiel, Tragedy and Epic; 4. Euripides and Aristotle: Friends in Mourning; 5. The Heroism of Hercules and the Beauty of Helen; 6. Mourning and Tragic Form; 7. Brecht, Beckett, Müller: Modern Tragedy and Engagement.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.5.2004
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	482 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780748619870 / 9780748619870
Zustand	Neuware