A companion to tragedy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rebecca Bushnell

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 556 p
• Disciplina: 809.2/512
• Soggetto topico: Tragedy - History and criticism
• Altri autori: BushnellRebecca W. <1952->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to tragedy
• ISBN: 1-78268-721-1; 1-280-19964-4; 9786610199648; 0-470-79567-0; 1-4051-6501-4; 0-470-99639-0; 1-4051-4142-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996214580003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 32.