Rethinking tragedy
Reiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh
Print Book, English, 2008
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008
Estudios, ensayos, etc
viii, 368 páginas ; 23 cm
9780801887406, 9780801887390, 0801887402, 0801887399
915978709
IntroductionPart One: Defining TragedyGeorge Steiner // "Tragedy," ReconsideredSimon Goldhill // Generalizing About TragedyWai Chee Dimock // After Troy: Homer, Euripides, Total WarKathleen M. Sands // Tragedy, Theology, and Feminism in the Time After TimeJoshua Foa Dienstag // Tragedy, Pessimism, NietzschePart Two: Rethinking the History of TragedyPage duBois // Toppling the Hero: Polyphony in the Tragic CityMartha C. Nussbaum // The "Morality of Pity": Sophocles' PhiloctetesSimon Critchley // I Want to Die, I Hate My Life— Phaedra's MalaisePart Three: Tragedy and ModernityDavid Scott // Tragedy's Time: Postemancipation Futures Past and PresentStanley Corngold // Sebald's TragedyOlga Taxidou // Machines and Models for Modern Tragedy: Brecht/Berlau, Antigone- Model 1948Timothy J. Reiss // Transforming Polities and Selves:Greek Antiquity, West African ModernityPart Four: Tragedy, Film, Popular CultureElisabeth Bronfen // Femme Fatale—Negotiations of Tragic DesireHeather K. Love // Spectacular Failure: The Figure of the Lesbian in Mulholland DriveMichel Maffesoli // The Return of the Tragic in Postmodern SocietiesTerry Eagleton // CommentaryNotes on ContributorsIndex
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