Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning / / Olga Taxidou.

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, p...

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