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UNINA9910816061603321 |
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Titolo |
A companion to tragedy / / edited by Rebecca Bushnell |
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Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2005 |
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ISBN |
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9786610199648 |
9781782687214 |
1782687211 |
9781280199646 |
1280199644 |
9780470795675 |
0470795670 |
9781405165013 |
1405165014 |
9780470996393 |
0470996390 |
9781405141420 |
1405141425 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 32 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BushnellRebecca W. <1952-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Tragedy - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- A Companion to Tragedy -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Tragic Thought -- Part I Tragedy and the Gods -- 1 Greek Tragedy and Ritual -- 2 Tragedy and Dionysus -- Part II Tragedy, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis -- 3 Aristotle's Poetics: A Defense of Tragic Fiction -- 4 The Greatness and Limits of Hegel's Theory of Tragedy -- 5 Nietzsche and Tragedy -- 6 Tragedy and Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan -- Part III Tragedy and History -- 7 Tragedy and City -- 8 Tragedy and Materialist Thought -- 9 Tragedy and Feminism -- Tragedy in History -- Part IV Tragedy in Antiquity -- 10 Tragedy and Myth -- 11 Tragedy and Epic -- 12 Tragedy in Performance -- 13 The Tragic Choral Group: Dramatic Roles |
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and Social Functions -- 14 Women in Greek Tragedy -- 15 Aristophanes, Old Comedy, and Greek Tragedy -- 16 Roman Tragedy -- Part V Renaissance and Baroque Tragedy -- 17 The Fall of Princes: The Classical and Medieval Roots of English Renaissance Tragedy -- 18 Something is Rotten: English Renaissance Tragedies of State -- 19 English Revenge Tragedy -- 20 Spanish Golden Age Tragedy: From Cervantes to Calderón -- Part VI Neoclassical and Romantic Tragedy -- 21 Neoclassical Dramatic Theory in Seventeenth-Century France -- 22 French Neoclassical Tragedy: Corneille/Racine -- 23 Romantic Tragic Drama and its Eighteenth-Century Precursors: Remaking British Tragedy -- 24 German Classical Tragedy: Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and Büchner -- 25 French Romantic Tragedy -- Part VII Tragedy and Modernity -- 26 Modern Theater and the Tragic in Europe -- 27 Tragedy in the Modern American Theater -- 28 Using Tragedy against its Makers: Some African and Caribbean Instances -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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