... postmodernism Rankin Ian Arendt Hannah tragedy Auden W H Craig Cairns Kemp Peter caricature laughter Eliot T S McCarthy Tom Cheyette Bryan Ivry Benjamin Nazism free will Judaism Nye Robert Auschwitz Nuremberg Laws Reznikoff Charles New Yorker Smith John Felman Shoshana Hausner Gideon...

... Eliot uses the genre of tragedy to re-moralise the intellect in the wake of nineteenth-century evolutionary psychology and the rise of the meritocratic ideal. 1 George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such (New York: A. L. Burt, 1900), pp. 70–1. 2 For example, Such’s...

... on the ruse of Reason in Hegel and tragedy. Discovery of the Mind The Snell enthnocentric prejudice Homeric poems Snell B Aristarchus athetesis analytic school Finley M I Unitarians Vidal Naquet P Wolf F A Athens cultures Greek poems Greek society and culture Iliad lyric poets Odyssey...

..., ultimately including happy endings and aspects of enlightened forgiveness. A difference is observed between the ‘shame culture’ of Greek tragedy and the ‘guilt culture’ of French drama (Albert S. Gérard). Some real historical incidents seem to replicate or prefigure the fictitious story. There is a close...

... Ideas with One Moral’ Mansfield K Sentimental /sentimentality tragedy /tragic Thoughtful Child Juvenilia ‘baby stories’ Edith Bendall Robison Some people seem to like those ‘baby’ stories, and I love writing them. ¹ (Katherine Mansfield to Sylvia Payne, 26 December 1904) Except...

...This chapter analyses the representation of the goddess Artemis in Archaic (Homer, Hesiod), Classical (tragedy) and Hellenistic literature, tracing and explaining the changes in the depiction of the goddess and in her role in Greek religious life. Whereas in Archaic and Classical literature she...

...A prominent characteristic of Greek narrative is the critical literature that reflected on it. The scholia especially can fill out the brief treatment of the narrative genre in Aristotle's Poetics Chapter 23. Despite their generic differences, epic and tragedy present similar...

... the tragic inescapability of self-interest and conflict, promulgating a politics of the possible; messianic utopianism (Benjamin, Derrida, Žižek) supplements the tragedy of the present with an otherworldly hope, promulgating a politics of the impossible. This chapter argues that Rose's speculative philosophy...

... of coming to know and of taking political risk in pursuit of a ‘good enough justice’.In this book Kate Schick presents the core themes of Rose's work and locates her ideas within central debates in contemporary social theory (trauma, memory and mourning; exclusion and difference; tragedy and messianic...

... to the Haymarket tragedy, which showed the developing militancy of anarchism. It studies terrorism and British anarchist newspapers and even presents an analysis of the London anarchist movement. The chapter considers the influence anarchism had on fin de siècle literature and the conservative...

...This chapter attempts to show how Thomas Middleton appropriates cosmetic materiality by deploying it imaginatively in the language and in the action, through violence and terror. It also tries to suggest that both The Revenger's Tragedy and The Second Maiden's Tragedy...

...When Hamlet reflects on the charged power of the tragic theater, the figure who haunts his imagination is Hecuba, Queen of Troy, whose tragedy came to define the genre in sixteenth-century Europe. As a bereaved mourner who seeks revenge, Hecuba offers a female version of Hamlet. Yet even while...

... “the objects of an injustice.” Osborne describes a general education seminar in literature and philosophy which gives students space to temporarily “suspend and question their values.” Here, the tragedies of Shakespeare and other authors enable the kind of productive disorientation (aporia...

... of Aeneas’ pietas, while Liberty Valance fills the role of Turnus, demonstrating Achillean traits, but in a negative light. Yet the film also has a close kinship with Greek tragedy: in particular, through its preoccupation with generational tensions along with issues of knowledge...

...This chapter introduces the term ‘tragedy’, beginning with a brief discussion on the reading and use of tragedy. It examines tragedy during the age of Sophocles and the secular and metaphysical aspect of tragic form. The chapter looks at the agnostic relationship between philosophy and tragedy...

...This chapter argues that fiction is Cixous’s space of predilection for thinking about tragedy. It approaches the question of what we might understand by a tragic life via Déluge, a text written after the end of a love story and one of the rare texts by Cixous written primarily...

...This book is concerned with literary responses to the tragic in the modern period. The tragic is, of course, derived from tragedy as a dramatic genre but it tended to have an independent existence almost from the start. It is argued that in considering the tragic in the modern period one needs...

..., mise en scène, even music, to the advancement of the plot, the characterisation of its protagonists and the construction of a diegetic world. The chapter argues that the narrative imperative in Angelopoulos' modernist cinema is a driving force behind the numerous explicit references to Greek tragedy...

... women"), by way of some highly specific yet hitherto unnoticed echoes and allusions. comedy Florio’s translation Hamlet Hamlin William M tragedy and comedy Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mucedorus Preston Thomas Cambyses Sidney Philip As You Like It Essays The Merchant...

... Falstaff liberalism Henry IV Prince Hal Jonathan Dollimore Radical Tragedy Jan Kott early modern We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. Richard Feynman In his best-known work, Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead argues...