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The tragic imagination
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ISBN: 0191056014 9780191056017 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Rowan Williams explores the definition of the tragic as a mode of narrative, in this short and thought-provoking volume. He turns to subjects including the role of irony in tragedy, the relationship between tragedy and political as well as religious rhetoric, common ground between tragedy and comedy, and the complex place of theology in the debate.

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Tragedy.


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Ritual Irony : poetry and sacrifice in Euripides
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Year: 1985 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae.Examining Euripides' representation of sacrificial ritual against the background of late fifth-century Athens, Helene P. Foley shows that each of these plays confronts directly the difficulty of making an archaic poetic tradition relevant to a democratic society. She explores the important mediating role played by choral poetry and ritual in the plays, asserting that Euripides' sacrificial metaphors and ritual performances link an anachronistic mythic ideal with a world dominated by "chance" or an incomprehensible divinity. Foley utilizes the ideas and methodology of contemporary literary theory and symbolic anthropology, addressing issues central to the emerging dialogue between the two fields. Her conclusions have important implications for the study of Greek tragedy as a whole and for our understanding of Euripides' tragic irony, his conception of religion, and the role of his choral odes.Assuming no specialized knowledge, Ritual Irony is aimed at all readers of Euripidean tragedy. It will prove particularly valuable to students and scholars of classics, comparative literature, and symbolic anthropology.

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Tragedy.

Tragedy : a very short introduction
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ISBN: 0192802356 9780192802354 0191775541 1435605489 9786611346607 1281346608 0191516570 9780191516573 6611346600 9780191577628 0191577626 9781435605480 9781281346605 9780191775543 Year: 2005 Volume: 131 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers critics, philosophers, politicians, and journalists? This work shows the relevance of tragedy to the modern world, and extends beyond drama and literature into visual art and everyday experience.

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Tragedy. --- Tragic, The. --- Tragedy --- Drama


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Origin of the German trauerspiel
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ISBN: 0674916360 0674916352 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity, bespeaking a haunted, bedeviled world of mutability and eternal transience. In this rigorous elegant translation, history as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal.


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Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Film.
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ISBN: 1443869120 9781443869126 9781443861304 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Despite the theories about the ""death of tragedy"", this book explores fragments and reflections of tragedy in postmodern film. Tragedy has changed and evolved with human society, and its continuous chain from Ancient Greece to modern times has been broken by postmodernism. However, certain aspects of tragedy have continued to be used by literature and film: in particular, films with themes of chaos, violence, popular culture, paranoia, virtual reality and alienation often use aspects of trage...


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The poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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ISBN: 1787371786 9781787371781 Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Portable Poetry

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English poetry. --- Tragedy.


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Tragic Modernities
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ISBN: 0674286944 0674286928 9780674286924 9780674743939 0674743938 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.

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Tragic, The. --- Tragedy. --- Drama


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The complete Euripedes.
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ISBN: 1283020580 9786613020581 0199830665 9780199830664 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. This volume collects Euipides' Alcestis (translated by William Arrowsmith), a subtle drama about Alcestis and her husband Admetos, which is the oldest surviving work by the dramatist; Medea (Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer), a moving vengeance story and an


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Bitter in the belly
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ISBN: 0228010314 9780228010319 9780228010326 0228010322 Year: 2021 Publisher: Montreal Kingston London Chicago

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Bitter in the Belly reckons with suicide's wreckage. After John Emil Vincent's best friend descends into depression and hangs himself, fluency and acuity lose their lustre. In his most personal book, Vincent moves from stark innocence through awful events and losses, to something like acceptance without wisdom.

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Grief --- Loss (Psychology) --- Tragedy.


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Contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy
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ISBN: 1472591550 1472591542 9781472591548 9781472591555 9781472591524 9781472591531 1472591534 1472591526 Year: 2017 Publisher: London

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