Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning / / Olga Taxidou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Taxidou, Olga,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619870);This powerful reinterpretation of Greek tragedy focuses on the performative - the physical and civic - dimension of tragedy. It challenges the idealist, humanist, and universalist approaches that have informed our most cherished philosophical, psychoanalytical, and modern interpretations of Greek tragedy and, in doing so, asks us to renew our relation to these works and to our literary and philosophical inheritance.The book reassesses tragic form in relation to Athenian democracy and links it with a performative discourse that both excludes the feminine and relies on civic and private forms of mourning. At the same time, it explores the centrality of tragedy for thinkers of Modernity such as Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Hegel, Freud, Brecht and Benjamin. Through a persuasive analysis of both classical theorists - Plato and Aristotle - and modern theorists - Benjamin, Lacan, Kristeva, Derrida and Butler - the book significantly shifts the emphasis from a Sophoclean model of tragedy to a Euripidean one. Close readings of the performance aspects of Greek play-texts help illuminate these ideas.FeaturesCompelling new interpretation of Greek tragedy Performance based Attentive to issues of gender"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE The Allure of Antigone or Antigone and the Philosophers -- CHAPTER TWO Oedipus/Anti-Oedipus: The Philosopher, the Actor and the Patient -- CHAPTER THREE Trauerspiel, Tragedy and Epic -- CHAPTER FOUR Euripides and Aristotle: Friends in Mourning -- CHAPTER FIVE The Heroism of Hercules and the Beauty of Helen -- CHAPTER SIX Mourning and Tragic Form -- CHAPTER SEVEN Brecht - Beckett - Müller: Modern Tragedy and Engagement -- Index