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After Dionysus

Author : William Storm
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501744879
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book After Dionysus written by William Storm and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Storm reinterprets the concept of the tragic as both a fundamental human condition and an aesthetic process in dramatic art. He proposes an original theoretical relation between a generative and consistent tragic ground and complex characterization patterns. For Storm, it is the dismemberment of character, not the death, that is the signature mark of tragic drama. Basing his theory in the sparagmos, the dismembering rite associated with Dionysus, Storm identifies a rending tendency that transcends the ancient Greek setting and can be recognized transhistorically. The dramatic character in any era who suffers the tragic fate must do so in the manner of the ancient god of theater: the depicted self is torn apart, figuratively if not literally, psychologically if not physically. Storm argues that a newly objectified concept of the tragic can prove more useful critically and diagnostically than the traditional and more subjective tragic "vision." Further, he develops a theory of the tragic field, a model for the connective and cumulative activity that brings about the distinctive Dionysian effect upon character. His theory is supported with case studies from Agamemnon and Iphigenia in Aulis, King Lear, and The Seagull. Storm's examination of the dramatic form of tragedy and the existential questions it raises is sensitive to both their universal relevance and their historical particularity.

Dionysus after Nietzsche

Author : Adam Lecznar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108482562
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Dionysus after Nietzsche written by Adam Lecznar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how, after Nietzsche, Dionysus and the ancient Greeks would never be the same again.

After Dionysus: an Essay on where We are Now

Author : Henry Ebel
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838679586
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book After Dionysus: an Essay on where We are Now written by Henry Ebel and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weighs the relationship of traditional and the present. Sees our world today as being like the transitional worlds of Homer, Virgil, and Apuleius and uses the two classical texts, the Metamorphoses and the Iliad as the basis of the discussion.

Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism

Author : Carlos A. Segovia
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004538593
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism written by Carlos A. Segovia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recovers Dionysus and Apollo as the twin conceptual personae of life’s dual rhythm in an attempt to redesign contemporary theory through the reciprocal but differential affirmation of event and form, body and thought, dance and philosophy.

Dionysus and Politics

Author : Filip Doroszewski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000392414
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Dionysus and Politics written by Filip Doroszewski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. The reader can observe how ideas and political themes rooted in Greek classical thought were continued, adapted and developed over the course of history. The authors (including four leading experts in the field: Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, Jean-Marie Pailler, Richard Seaford andRichard Stoneman) reconstruct the political significance of Dionysus by examining different types of evidence: historiography, poetry, coins, epigraphy, art and philosophy. They discuss the place of the god in Greek city-state politics, explore the long tradition of imitating Dionysus that ancient leaders, from Alexander the Great to the Roman emperors, manifested in various ways, and shows how the political role of Dionysus was reflected in Orphism and Neoplatonist philosophy. Dionysus and Politics provides an excellent introduction to a fundamental feature of ancient political thought which until now has been largely neglected by mainstream academia. The book will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars interested in ancient politics and religion.

The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature

Author : David D. Leitao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107379342
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature written by David D. Leitao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolved over the course of the classical period. The image - as deployed in myth and in metaphor - originated as a representation of paternity and, by extension, 'authorship' of ideas, works of art, legislation, and the like. Only later, with its reception in philosophy in the early fourth century, did it also become a way to figure and negotiate the boundary between the sexes. The book considers a number of important moments in the evolution of the image: the masculinist embryological theory of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and other fifth century pre-Socratics; literary representations of the birth of Dionysus; the origin and functions of pregnancy as a metaphor in tragedy, comedy and works of some Sophists; and finally the redeployment of some of these myths and metaphors in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen and in Plato's Symposium and Theaetetus.

Dionysus on the Other Shore

Author : Letizia Fusini
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004423389
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Dionysus on the Other Shore written by Letizia Fusini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dionysus on the Other Shore, Letizia Fusini re-examines Gao Xingjian’s post-1987 theatre as a form of tragedy.

Tales of Dionysus

Author : William Levitan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472038966
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Dionysus written by William Levitan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English verse translation of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 1

Author : Giuseppe Fornari
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628953934
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 1 written by Giuseppe Fornari and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial reflection on the history and destiny of the West compares Greco-Roman civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition in order to understand what both unites and divides them. Mediation, understood as a collective, symbolic experience, gives society unity and meaning, putting human beings in contact with a universal object known as the world or reality. But unity has a price: the very force that enables peaceful coexistence also makes us prone to conflict. As a result, in order to find a common point of convergence—of at-one-ment—someone must be sacrificed. Sacrifice, then, is the historical pillar of mediation. It was endorsed in a cosmic-religious sense in antiquity and rejected for ethical reasons in modernity, where the Judeo-Christian tradition plays an intermediate role in condemning sacrificial violence as such, while accepting sacrifice as a voluntary act offered to save other human beings. Today, as we face the collapse of all shared mediations, this intermediating solution offers a way out of our moral and cultural plight.

The Digital Dionysus

Author : Dan Mellamphy
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 0692270795
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book The Digital Dionysus written by Dan Mellamphy and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Nietzsche be considered a thinker of media and mediation, as the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler declared in his influential book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter?Nietzsche was a truly transdisciplinary thinker, one who never fit into his own nineteenth-century surroundings and who recognized himself as a "herald and precursor" of the future, of our globally-reticulated digital present. Perhaps not since Kittler has there been a study - let alone an anthology - that re-assesses and re-evaluates Nietzsche's thought in light of the technically mediated and machinic conditions of the human in the age of digital networks.Drawing on the first four years of conference-proceedings from the annual Nietzsche Workshop @ Western (NWW, Western University, Ontario), which culminated in the "New York NWW.IV": Cyber-Nietzsche: Tunnels, Tightropes, Net-&-Meshworks (held at the Center for Transformative Media, Parsons The New School for Design), The Digital Dionysus explores Nietzschean themes in light of the problems and questions of digitization, information and technical mediation, offering its readers the opportunity to consider Nietzsche's contemporary relevance in light of emerging theories in new media studies, political studies, critical aesthetics, the digital humanities and contemporary post-continental philosophy.Co-edited by Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy (Western University, UWO) for the CTM Documents Initiative imprint (Center for Transformative Media, Parsons School of Design, The New School), the volume features essays and works by leading and emerging philosophers, artists, [h]activists, and political media theorists, including Babette Babich, R. Scott Bakker, Shannon Bell, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Jen Boyle, Sarah Choukah, Manabrata Guha, Horst Hutter, Arthur Kroker, Nicola Masciandaro, Dan Mellamphy, Joseph Nechvatal, Julian Reid, Gary Shapiro, Heike Schotten, Eugene Thacker and Dylan Wittkower.

The Dionysian Gospel

Author : Dennis R. MacDonald
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506421660
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Dionysian Gospel written by Dennis R. MacDonald and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.” Dennis R. MacDonald offers a provocative explanation of those scandalous words of Christ from the Fourth Gospel—an explanation that he argues would hardly have surprised some of the Gospel’s early readers. John sounds themes that would have instantly been recognized as proper to the Greek god Dionysos (the Roman Bacchus), not least as he was depicted in Euripides’s play The Bacchae. A divine figure, the offspring of a divine father and human mother, takes on flesh to live among mortals, but is rejected by his own. He miraculously provides wine and offers it as a sacred gift to his devotees, women prominent among them, dies a violent death—and returns to life. Yet John takes his drama in a dramatically different direction: while Euripides’s Dionysos exacts vengeance on the Theban throne, the Johannine Christ offers life to his followers. MacDonald employs mimesis criticism to argue that the earliest Evangelist not only imitated Euripides but expected his readers to recognize Jesus as greater than Dionysos.

Remembering Dionysus

Author : Susan Rowland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317209621
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Dionysus written by Susan Rowland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dionysus, god of dismemberment and sponsor of the lost or abandoned feminine, originates both Jungian psychology and literature in Remembering Dionysus. Characterized by spontaneity, fluid boundaries, sexuality, embodiment, wild nature, ecstasy and chaos, Dionysus is invoked in the writing of C. G. Jung and James Hillman as the dual necessity to adopt and dismiss literature for their archetypal vision of the psyche or soul. Susan Rowland describes an emerging paradigm for the twenty-first century enacting the myth of a god torn apart to be re-membered, and remembered as reborn in a great renewal of life. Rowland demonstrates how persons, forms of knowing and even eras that dismiss Dionysus are torn apart, and explores how Jung was Dionysian in providing his most dismembered text, The Red Book. Remembering Dionysus pursues the rough god into the Sublime in the destruction of meaning in Jung and Jacques Lacan, to a re-membering of sublime feminine creativity that offers zoe, or rebirth participating in an archetype of instinctual life. This god demands to be honoured inside our knowing and being, just as he (re)joins us to wild nature. This revealing book will be invigorating reading for Jungian analysts, psychotherapists, arts therapists and counsellors, as well as academics and students of analytical psychology, depth psychology, Jungian and post-Jungian studies, literary studies and ecological humanities.

Dionysus in Exile

Author : Rafael López-Pedraza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dionysus in Exile written by Rafael López-Pedraza and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally renowned Jungian analyst Lopez-Pedraza diagnoses the psychological illness at the core of modern society--the loss of embodied soulfulness in people's lives. In this study of the Greek god Dionysus, he offers insight for a cure. This book may be worth several years in psychotherapy, if one takes its message to heart. Dismemberment and cannibalism, Prometheus and Titanic nature, mystical experience, the communal aspect of Dionysiac worship, jazz, flamenco, and bullfighting are among the many twists and turns taken in this essay that wends its way through issues of the body and emotion to open hidden doors for psychotherapy and to cast new light on post-modern humanity.

Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World

Author : Eric Csapo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110980355
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World written by Eric Csapo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy – serve their needs? Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially by the tyrants, and secondly by the democracies" (Republic 568c). For more than forty years scholars have explored the political, ideological, structural and economic links between democracy and theatre in ancient Greece. By contrast, the links between autocracy and theatre are virtually ignored, despite the fact that for the first 200 years of theatre's existence more than a third of all theatre-states were autocratic. For the next 600 years, theatre flourished almost exclusively under autocratic regimes. The volume brings together experts in ancient theatre to undertake the first systematic study of the patterns of use made of the theatre by tyrants, regents, kings and emperors. Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World is the first comprehensive study of the historical circumstances and means by which autocrats turned a medium of mass communication into an instrument of mass control.

Dionysus Resurrected

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405175788
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Dionysus Resurrected written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides’ The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day performances, the author reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play’s revival and events within the play itself. Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels between transformational eventsduring the era of the play’s revival and events within the play itself The first comparative study to analyse and contextualize performances of The Bacchae that took place between 1968 and 2009 from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia Argues that presentations of the play not only represent liminal states but also transfer the spectators into such states Contends that the play’s reflection on various stages of globalization render the tragedy a contemporary play Establishes the importance of The Bacchae within Euripides’ work as the only extant tragedy in which the god Dionysus himself appears, not just as a character but as the protagonist

Dionysus and Rome

Author : Fiachra Mac Góráin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110672235
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Dionysus and Rome written by Fiachra Mac Góráin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god’s Roman and Italian manifestations. Nine contributions address Bacchus’ appearance at the crossroads of Greek and Roman cultures, tracing continuities and differences between literary and archaeological sources for the god. The essays offer coverage of Dionysus in Roman art, Italian epigraphy; Latin poetry including epic, drama and elegy; and prose, including historiography, rhetorical and Christian discourse. The introduction offers an overview of the presence of Dionysus in Italy from the archaic to the imperial periods, identifying the main scholarly trends, with treatment of key Dionysian episodes in Roman history and literature. Individual chapters address the reception of Euripides’ Bacchae across Greek and Roman literature from Athens to Byzantium; Dionysus in Roman art of the archaic and Augustan periods; the god’s relationship with Fufluns and Liber in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE; Dionysian associations; Bacchus in Cicero; Ovid’s Tristia 5.3; Bacchus in the writings of Christian Latin writers. The collection sheds light on a relatively understudied aspect of Dionysus, and will stimulate further research in this area.

Dionysus

Author : Walter F. Otto
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208910
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Dionysus written by Walter F. Otto and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study of Dionysus . . . is also a new theogony of Early Greece." —Publishers Weekly "An original analysis . . . of the spiritual significance of the Greek myth and cult of Dionysus." —Theology Digest