Rethinking Tragedy

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8740-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics.

Seven new essays—as well as eight essays originally published in a New Literary History special issue on tragedy—address important, previously neglected areas of tragedy and postcolonial criticism. The new material explores the tragic dimensions of popular culture, the relationship between tragedy and pity, and feminism's avoidance of the tragic, and includes an incisive history of tragic theory.

Classic and cutting-edge, this collection offers a provocative, accessible, and comprehensive treatment of tragedy and tragic theory.

Contributors: Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich; Stanley Corngold, Princeton University; Simon Critchley, University of Essex; Joshua Foa Dienstag, University of California, Los Angeles; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University; Page duBois, University of California, San Diego; Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester; Rita Felski, University of Virginia; Simon Goldhill, Cambridge University; Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania; Michel Maffesoli, University of Paris (V); Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago; Timothy J. 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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felski, Rita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part One: Defining Tragedy
George Steiner // "Tragedy," Reconsidered
Simon Goldhill // Generalizing About Tragedy
Wai Chee Dimock // After Troy: Homer, Euripides, Total War
Kathleen M. Sands // Tragedy, Theology, and Feminism in the Time After Time
Joshua Foa Dienstag // Tragedy, Pessimism, Nietzsche
Part Two: Rethinking the History of Tragedy
Page duBois // Toppling the Hero: Polyphony in the Tragic City
Martha C. Nussbaum // The "Morality of Pity": Sophocles' Philoctetes
Simon Critchley // I Want to Die, I Hate My Life— Phaedra's Malaise
Part Three: Tragedy and Modernity
David Scott // Tragedy's Time: Postemancipation Futures Past and Present
Stanley Corngold // Sebald's Tragedy
Olga Taxidou // Machines and Models for Modern Tragedy: Brecht/Berlau, Antigone- Model 1948
Timothy J. Reiss // Transforming Polities and Selves:Greek Antiquity, West African Modernity
Part Four: Tragedy, Film, Popular Culture
Elisabeth Bronfen // Femme Fatale—Negotiations of Tragic Desire
Heather K. Love // Spectacular Failure: The Figure of the Lesbian in Mulholland Drive
Michel Maffesoli // The Return of the Tragic in Postmodern Societies
Terry Eagleton // Commentary
Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Felski, Rita
Rita Felski is a professor of English and chair of comparative literature at the University of Virginia.