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Book Synopsis Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human by : Mark Ringer
Download or read book Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human written by Mark Ringer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human offers the first single-volume detailed reading of the nineteen canonical Euripidean plays in nearly fifty years. The dramas are examined not only in their diversity but also for the themes and ideas that bind them together as the work of a single remarkable playwright.
Book Synopsis Boundaries of Dionysus by : Alfred Cary Schlesinger
Download or read book Boundaries of Dionysus written by Alfred Cary Schlesinger and published by Cambridge, Harvard U. P. This book was released on 1963 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medea of Euripides written by Euripides and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medea of Euripides is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides. Medea, a former princess of the kingdom of Colchis, finds her position threatened as her husband leaves her for a Greek princess. Medea plots a horrendous vengeance...
Book Synopsis The Good, the Bad and the Ancient by : Sue Matheson
Download or read book The Good, the Bad and the Ancient written by Sue Matheson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Americans are no longer compelled to learn Greek and Latin, classical ideals remain embedded in American law and politics, philosophy, oratory, history and especially popular culture. In the Western genre, many film and television directors (such as John Ford, Raoul Walsh, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah) have drawn inspiration from antiquity, and the classical values and influences in their work have shaped our conceptions of the West for years. This thought-provoking, first-of-its-kind collection of essays celebrates, affirms and critiques the West's relationship with the classical world. Explored are films like Cheyenne Autumn, The Wild Bunch, The Track of the Cat, Trooper Hook, The Furies, Heaven's Gate, and Slow West, as well as serials like Gunsmoke and Lonesome Dove.
Book Synopsis Euripides by : William Nickerson Bates
Download or read book Euripides written by William Nickerson Bates and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Animal Narratology by : Joela Jacobs
Download or read book Animal Narratology written by Joela Jacobs and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Narratology interrogates what it means to narrate, to speak—speak for, on behalf of—and to voice, or represent life beyond the human, which is in itself as different as insects, bears, and dogs are from each other, and yet more, as individual as a single mouse, horse, or puma. The varied contributions to this interdisciplinary Special Issue highlight assumptions about the human perception of, attitude toward, and responsibility for the animals that are read and written about, thus demonstrating that just as “the animal” does not exist, neither does “the human”. In their zoopoetic focus, the analyses are aware that animal narratology ultimately always contains an approximation of an animal perspective in human terms and terminology, yet they make clear that what matters is how the animal is approximated and that there is an effort to approach and encounter the non-human in the first place. Many of the analyses come to the conclusion that literary animals give readers the opportunity to expand their own points of view both on themselves and others by adopting another’s perspective to the degree that such an endeavor is possible. Ultimately, the contributions call for a recognition of the many spaces, moments, and modes in which human lives are entangled with those of animals—one of which is located within the creative bounds of storytelling.
Book Synopsis Becoming Female by : Katrina Cawthorn
Download or read book Becoming Female written by Katrina Cawthorn and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Becoming Female", the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male hero becomes female in the space of tragedy through the experience of suffering, and seems unable to return to any secure expression of masculinity. Katrina Cawthorn concentrates initially on the figure of Heracles in Sophocles' "The Women of Trachis", an exemplary specimen of the tragic process of becoming female, who exhibits many of the central issues considered in the book. The male hero is, in the course of the play, undone and feminised, while the instability of masculine identity is revealed.This theme of becoming female, and the resulting failure to circumscribe the feminine and return to any secure and triumphant concept of masculinity, is argued to be a discernible feature of the genre of tragedy. The inconclusive and disconcerting nature of tragic endings contribute to the dislocation of the tragic male and emphasise the Dionysian disturbance of the male hero.Moreover, this state of the dissolute male hero has textual and theatrical consequences, extending to affect the audience so that it too becomes feminised by the processes of tragedy."Becoming Female" is an important work for scholars and students of Classical Studies, Ancient History, Drama and Theatre Studies, Women's Studies and Cultural Studies.
Book Synopsis Classical Literature and Posthumanism by : Giulia Maria Chesi
Download or read book Classical Literature and Posthumanism written by Giulia Maria Chesi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume asks what classical learning can bring to the table of posthuman studies, assembling chapters that explore how exactly the human self of Greek and Latin literature understands its own relation to animals, monsters, objects, cyborgs and robotic devices. With its widely diverse habitat of heterogeneous bodies, minds, and selves, classical literature again and again blurs the boundaries between the human and the non-human; not to equate and confound the human with its other, but playfully to highlight difference and hybridity, as an invitation to appraise the animal, monstrous or mechanical/machinic parts lodged within humans. This comprehensive collection unites contributors from across the globe, each delving into a different classical text or narrative and its configuration of human subjectivity-how human selves relate to other entities around them. For students and scholars of classical literature and the posthuman, this book is a first point of reference.
Book Synopsis Women on the Edge by : Ruby Blondell
Download or read book Women on the Edge written by Ruby Blondell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, and posthumously produced masterpiece. Each play shows women in various roles--slave, unmarried girl, devoted wife, alienated wife, mother, daughter--providing a range of evidence about the kinds of meaning and effects the category woman conveyed in ancient Athens. The female protagonists in these plays test the boundaries--literal and conceptual--of their lives. Although women are often represented in tragedy as powerful and free in their thoughts, speech and actions, real Athenian women were apparently expected to live unseen and silent, under control of fathers and husbands, with little political or economic power. Women in tragedy often disrupt "normal" life by their words and actions: they speak out boldly, tell lies, cause public unrest, violate custom, defy orders, even kill. Female characters in tragedy take actions, and raise issues central to the plays in which they appear, sometimes in strong opposition to male characters. The four plays in this collection offer examples of women who support the status quo and women who oppose and disrupt it; sometimes these are the same characters.
Book Synopsis Deep History, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Human Culture by : Louise Westling
Download or read book Deep History, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Human Culture written by Louise Westling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully modern humans who moved out of Africa to Europe and Asia 70,000 years ago. Biosemiotics reveals meaningful communication among coevolving members of the intricately connected life forms on this dynamic planet. Within this web hominins developed culture from bipedalism and meat-eating to the use of fire, stone tools, and clothing, allowing wide migrations and adaptations. Archaeology and ancient DNA analysis show how fully modern humans overlapped with Neanderthals and Denisovans before emerging as the sole survivors of the genus Homo 35,000 years ago. Their visions of the world appear in magnificent cave paintings and bone sculptures of animals, then more recently in written narratives like the Gilgamesh epic and Euripides' Bacchae whose images still haunt us with anxieties about human efforts to control the natural world.
Book Synopsis Euripides the Idealist by : Reginald Bainbridge Appleton
Download or read book Euripides the Idealist written by Reginald Bainbridge Appleton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols) by : Andreas Markantonatos
Download or read book Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols) written by Andreas Markantonatos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 1227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to Euripides, as well as presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Euripidean studies.
Book Synopsis The Ethics of Euripides by : Rhys Carpenter
Download or read book The Ethics of Euripides written by Rhys Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hippolytos written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aspects of Human Sacrifice in the Tragedies of Euripides by : Elly A. M. E. O'Connor Visser
Download or read book Aspects of Human Sacrifice in the Tragedies of Euripides written by Elly A. M. E. O'Connor Visser and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy by : Thalia Papadopoulou
Download or read book Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy written by Thalia Papadopoulou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play of great complexity, exploring the co-existence of both positive and negative aspects of the eponymous hero. Euripides treats Heracles' ambivalence by showing his uncertain position after the completion of his labours and turns him into a tragic hero by dramatizing his development from the invincible hero of the labours to the courageous bearer of suffering. This book offers a comprehensive reading of Heracles examining it in the contexts of Euripidean dramaturgy, Greek drama and fifth-century Athenian society. It shows that the play, which raises profound questions on divinity and human values, deserves to have a prominent place in every discussion about Euripides and about Greek tragedy. Tracing some of Euripides' most spectacular writing in terms of emotional and intellectual effect, and discussing questions of narrative, rhetoric, stagecraft and audience reception, this work is required reading for all students and scholars of Euripides.
Book Synopsis Seeing with Free Eyes by : Marlene K. Sokolon
Download or read book Seeing with Free Eyes written by Marlene K. Sokolon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to Plato's challenge to defend the political thought of poetic sources, Marlene K. Sokolon explores Euripides's understanding of justice in nine of his surviving tragedies. Drawing on Greek mythological stories, Euripides examines several competing ideas of justice, from the ancient ethic of helping friends and harming enemies to justice as merit and relativist views of might makes right. Reflecting Dionysus, the paradoxical god of Greek theater, Euripides reveals the human experience of understanding justice to be limited, multifaceted, and contradictory. His approach underscores the value of understanding justice not only as a rational idea or theory, but also as an integral part of the continuous and unfinished dialogue of political community. As the first book devoted to Euripidean justice, Seeing with Free Eyes adds to the growing interest in how citizens in democracies use storytelling genres to think about important political questions, such as "What is justice?"
