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In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace
the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance
contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period
and across geographic, political, and social references. They
attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and
mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European
exempla from Croatia and Hungary. Each chapter takes a different
theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and
circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy
and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and
nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace
the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance
contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period
and across geographic, political, and social references. They
attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and
mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European
exempla from Croatia and Hungary. Each chapter takes a different
theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and
circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy
and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and
nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Early modern prose fiction had a huge impact on the social and
economic fabric of the time. It created a new culture of reading
and writing for pleasure which became accessible to those
previously excluded from such activities (primarily women and the
working classes), resulting in a significant challenge to existing
class structures.
Each of the essays in this exciting collection considers the
reciprocal relation of early modern prose fiction to class
distinctions, examining factors such as:
- The impact of prose fiction on the social, political and economic
fabric of early modern England
- The way in which a growing emphasis on literacy allowed for
increased class mobility and newly flexible notions of class
- How the popularity of reading and the subsequent demand for books
led to the production and marketing of books as an industry
- Complications for critics of prose fiction, as it began to be
considered an inferior and trivial art form
- The development of the genre of romance fiction and the emerging
sense of 'nation' and 'nationalism' that accompanied it
Emphasizing the significance of early modern prose fiction as a
hybrid genre that absorbed cultural, ideological, and historical
strands of the age, this fascinating study brings together an
outstanding cast of critics including: Sheila T. Cavanaugh, Stephen
Guy-Bray, Mary Ellen Lamb, Joan Pong Linton, Steve Mentz, Constance
C. Relihan, Goran V. Stanivukovic with an afterword from Arthur
Kinney.
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Tragedy (Paperback)
John Drakakis, Naomi Conn Liebler
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R1,804
Discovery Miles 18 040
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This wide-ranging and unique collection of documents on one of the
most enduring of literary genres, Tragedy, offers a radical
revaluation of its significance in the light of the critical
attention that it has received during the past one-hundred and
fifty years. The foundations of much contemporary thinking about
Tragedy are to be found in the writings of Hegel, Nietzsche, and
Kierkegaard; in addition, the dialectical tradition emanating from
Marxism, and the psycho-analytical writings of Freud, have extended
significantly the horizons of the subject. With the explosion of
interest in the areas of post-structuralism, sociology of culture,
social anthropology, feminism, deconstruction, and the study of
ritual, new questions are being asked about this persistent
artistic exploration of human experience. This book seeks to
represent a full selection of these divergent interests, in a
series of substantial extracts which display the continuing
richness of the debate about a genre which has provoked, and
challenged categorical discussion since the appearance of
Aristotle's Poetics.
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy is a unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Naomi Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Coriolanus and King Lear as `sacrifical victims of the prevailing social order'. A fascinating examination of Shakespearean tragedy, this extraordinary book will provoke excitment and controversy alike.
In "Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy" Naomi Conn Liebler offers a
trenchant and challenging re-reading of the genre of Shakespearean
tragedy. Extending the category of the "festive" to apply to
tragedy as well as comedy, Liebler describes Shakespearean tragedy
as a celebration of communal survival, and a demonstration of what
happens when a community violates the ritual structures that define
and preserve it.
Employing the works of drama theorists, such as Aristotle, Brecht
and Girard, as well as cultural anthropologists, such as Clifford
Geertz, Victor Turner and Mary Douglas, Liebler focuses upon
tragedy as the formal representation of real social action and
conflict. She views the community as a whole--not just the
protagonist--as the real subject of the drama. The festive tragedy
is concerned with ritual practice whose function is, as "King
Lear's" Tom O'Bedlam put it, "to prevent the fiend and to kill
vermin"--that is, to protect and purge. The violation of this
ritual practice jeopardizes the survival of the entire community.
Through a detailed analysis of a number of Shakespeare's great
tragic works, "Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy" provides a series of
fresh connections between the rituals of festivity and tragedy.
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Tragedy (Hardcover)
John Drakakis, Naomi Conn Liebler
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R4,166
Discovery Miles 41 660
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This wide-ranging and unique collection of documents on one of the
most enduring of literary genres, Tragedy, offers a radical
revaluation of its significance in the light of the critical
attention that it has received during the past one-hundred and
fifty years. The foundations of much contemporary thinking about
Tragedy are to be found in the writings of Hegel, Nietzsche, and
Kierkegaard; in addition, the dialectical tradition emanating from
Marxism, and the psycho-analytical writings of Freud, have extended
significantly the horizons of the subject. With the explosion of
interest in the areas of post-structuralism, sociology of culture,
social anthropology, feminism, deconstruction, and the study of
ritual, new questions are being asked about this persistent
artistic exploration of human experience. This book seeks to
represent a full selection of these divergent interests, in a
series of substantial extracts which display the continuing
richness of the debate about a genre which has provoked, and
challenged categorical discussion since the appearance of
Aristotle's Poetics.
Early modern prose fiction had a huge impact on the social and
economic fabric of the time. It created a new culture of reading
and writing for pleasure which became accessible to those
previously excluded from such activities (primarily women and the
working classes), resulting in a significant challenge to existing
class structures.
Each of the essays in this exciting collection considers the
reciprocal relation of early modern prose fiction to class
distinctions, examining factors such as:
- The impact of prose fiction on the social, political and economic
fabric of early modern England
- The way in which a growing emphasis on literacy allowed for
increased class mobility and newly flexible notions of class
- How the popularity of reading and the subsequent demand for books
led to the production and marketing of books as an industry
- Complications for critics of prose fiction, as it began to be
considered an inferior and trivial art form
- The development of the genre of romance fiction and the emerging
sense of 'nation' and 'nationalism' that accompanied it
Emphasizing the significance of early modern prose fiction as a
hybrid genre that absorbed cultural, ideological, and historical
strands of the age, this fascinating study brings together an
outstanding cast of critics including: Sheila T. Cavanaugh, Stephen
Guy-Bray, Mary Ellen Lamb, Joan Pong Linton, Steve Mentz, Constance
C. Relihan, Goran V. Stanivukovic with an afterword from Arthur
Kinney.
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