CHORUSES ANCIENT & MODERN C

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-967057-4
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 822 g

Choruses, Ancient and Modern examines the ancient Greek chorus and its afterlives in western culture. Choruses, though absolutely central to the social, political, and religious life of classical Greece, no longer hold the same broad importance in modernity, yet the attraction of the Greek chorus has proved a strong impetus to reimagining. Artists and thinkers have continually appropriated Greek choruses to their own ends, and the body of these engagements constitutes a rich and hitherto-unexplored area of the reception of classical antiquity. Exploring the choral tradition from archaic Greece to the present across a variety of different media, the volume thematically juxtaposes perspectives on choruses to create a dialogue between ancient and modern contexts.

Following a substantial introduction, the four sections of the book discuss the place of the chorus within scholarship, aesthetic and philosophical perspectives on the chorus, reflections on absences of the chorus, and the social and communal potential of the chorus. Each section considers antiquity and modernity in counterpoint, at once de-familiarizing ancient contexts of the chorus and defining crucial moments in modern choral traditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al, Billings Et

Billings, Joshua

Budelmann, Felix

Macintosh, Fiona

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Alte Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Contributors

- List of Illustrations

- Note on Nomenclature, spelling and texts

- Introduction: Choral Fantasies

- Scholarship

- 1: Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi: Theorising the Chorus in Greece

- 2: Simon Goldhill: The Greek Chorus: Our German Eyes

- 3: Constanze Güthenke: The Middle Voice: German Classical Scholarship and the Greek Tragic Chorus

- 4: Ian Rutherford: Chorus, Song, and Anthropology

- Aesthetics

- 5: Felix Budelmann: Greek Festival Choruses in and out of Context

- 6: Helen Slaney: Seneca's Chorus of One

- 7: Roger Savage: Something like the Choruses of the Ancients: the Coro Stabile and the Chorus in European Opera, 1598-1782

- 8: Joshua Billings: An Alien Body? Choral Autonomy around 1800

- 9: Martin Revermann: Brechtian Chorality

- Shadows

- 10: Sheila Murnaghan: The Nostalgia of the Male Tragic Chorus

- 11: Christian Biet: A Senecan Theatre of Cruelty: Audience, Citizens, and Chorus in Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth-Century French Dramas

- 12: Cécile Dudouyt: Phantom Chorus: Missing Chorality on the French Eighteenth-Century Stage

- 13: Laurence Dreyfus: Sunk in the Mystic Abyss: The Choral Orchestra in Wagner's Music Dramas

- 14: Zachary Dunbar: How do you solve a problem like the chorus? Hammerstein s Allegro and the Reception of the Greek Chorus on Broadway

- Company

- 15: Richard Seaford: The Politics of the Mystic Chorus

- 16: Edith Hall: Mob, Cabal, or Utopian Commune? The Political Contestation of the Ancient Chorus 1789-1917

- 17: Fiona Macintosh: Choruses, Community, and the Corps de Ballet

- 18: Eleftheria Ioannidou: Chorus and the Vaterland: Greek Tragedy and the Ideology of Choral Performance in Inter-War Germany

- 19: Erika Fischer-Lichte: Revivals of Choric Theatre as Utopian Visions

- 20: Helen Eastman: Chorus in Contemporary British Theatre

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joshua Billings is Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities at Yale University. His research focuses on tragedy, intellectual history, and the classical tradition.

Felix Budelmann is Lecturer in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. He works on Greek literature, especially lyric and tragedy.

Fiona Macintosh is Director of the APGRD, Reader in Greek and Roman Drama, University Lecturer in the Reception of Greek and Roman Literature, and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is author and editor of numerous books on the reception of Greek drama.