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The Attic Tragedy

Author : J. Ashley-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946154491
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book The Attic Tragedy written by J. Ashley-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvie never called them ghosts, but that's what they were--not that George ever saw them herself. The new girl, Sylvie, is like a creature from another time, with her old-fashioned leather satchel, her white cotton gloves and her head in the clouds. George watches her drift around the edge of the school playing fields, guided by inaudible voices.When George stands up for Sylvie, beating back Tommy Payne and his gang of thugs, it brings her close to the ethereal stranger; though not as close as George would have liked. In the attic of Sylvie's father's antique shop, George's scars will sing and her longing will drive them both toward a tragedy as veiled and inevitable as Sylvie's whispering ghosts.

Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy

Author : Anne Pippin Burnett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520919955
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy written by Anne Pippin Burnett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place distinct both from reality and from the ethics of ordinary life. Offering fresh readings of Attic tragedy, Anne Pippin Burnett urges readers to peel away twentieth-century attitudes toward vengeance and reconsider the revenge tragedies of ancient Athens in their own context. After a consideration of how our view of Elizabethan drama has obscured an accurate view of the ancient tragedies, Burnett reviews early Greek notions of vengeance as expressed in the Odyssey, Heracles' tales, Pindar's odes, Attic judicial processes, and the legend of Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Then, setting aside post-Platonic and Judeo-Christian notions of criminality, she provides new interpretations of all the Attic tragedies in which revenge is a central theme: Aeschylus' Libation Bearers, Sophocles' Ajax, Electra, and Tereus, and Euripides' Children of Heracles, Hecuba, Medea, Electra, and Orestes. Burnett shows that for the ancients, revenge meant a redress of imbalances in both human and divine worlds, achieved through human actions. The vengeful heroines thus appear in a new light. Electra, Hecuba, Medea, and others cease to be the picture of depravity in dramas that are grotesque and sensational, and are instead representative human figures who respond with grandeur to the outsize demands of necessity and supernatural powers.

Hope: A Tragedy

Author : Shalom Auslander
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101561289
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Hope: A Tragedy written by Shalom Auslander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book 2012 The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn’t quite working out that way for Kugel… His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won’t stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers history—a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history—hiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse. Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present.

The Attic Theatre

Author : Arthur Elam Haigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Attic Theatre written by Arthur Elam Haigh and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Film for Her

Author : Orion Carloto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781524853778
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book Film for Her written by Orion Carloto and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her is a story book of people, places, and memories captured on film. Through photographs, poetry, prose, and a short story, Orion Carloto invites readers to remember the forgotten and reach into the past, find comfort in the present, and make sense of the intangible future. Film photography isn't just eye candy; it's timeless and romantic--the ideal complement to Carloto's writing. In Film for Her, much like a visual diary, word and image are intertwined in a book perfect for both gift and self-purchase.

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524747955
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us written by Simon Critchley and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own. The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us, in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.

Behind the Attic Wall

Author : Sylvia Cassedy
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0380698439
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Attic Wall written by Sylvia Cassedy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved.

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy

Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423519
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy written by P. E. Easterling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and performance of Greek tragedy. There are three main emphases: on tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens, on a range of different critical interpretations arising from fresh readings of the texts, and on changing patterns of reception, adaptation, and performance from antiquity to the present. Each chapter can be read independently, but each is linked with the others, and most examples are drawn from the same selection of plays.

Achilles in Greek Tragedy

Author : Pantelis Michelakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521038928
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Achilles in Greek Tragedy written by Pantelis Michelakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the tragic dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address the concerns of their time.

The Attic Tragedy

Author : J Ashley-Smith
Publisher : Meerkat Shorts, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781946154484
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book The Attic Tragedy written by J Ashley-Smith and published by Meerkat Shorts, LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvie never called them ghosts, but that's what they were-not that George ever saw them herself. The new girl, Sylvie, is like a creature from another time, with her old-fashioned leather satchel, her white cotton gloves and her head in the clouds. George watches her drift around the edge of the school playing fields, guided by inaudible voices. When George stands up for Sylvie, beating back Tommy Payne and his gang of thugs, it brings her close to the ethereal stranger; though not as close as George would have liked. In the attic of Sylvie's father's antique shop, George's scars will sing and her longing will drive them both toward a tragedy as veiled and inevitable as Sylvie's whispering ghosts.

The Origin of Attic Comedy

Author : Francis MacDonald Cornford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521182077
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Attic Comedy written by Francis MacDonald Cornford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943)investigates the origin of Attic Comedy.

Death and Burial in Attic Tragedy

Author : Lucia Catherine Graeme Grieve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Death and Burial in Attic Tragedy written by Lucia Catherine Graeme Grieve and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greek Tragedy

Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405121610
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study Examines tragedy’s relationship to democracy, religion, and myth Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices Includes detailed readings of selected plays

Killer in the Attic

Author : John Stark Bellamy
Publisher : Ohio
ISBN 13 : 9781886228573
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Killer in the Attic written by John Stark Bellamy and published by Ohio. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes twenty-six crimes and disasters that occurred in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the 1800s and 1900s.

Tragic Workings in Euripides' Drama

Author : Synnøve Des Bouvrie
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763545952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Workings in Euripides' Drama written by Synnøve Des Bouvrie and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragic Workings in Euripides? Drama' offers a substantially new theory and method for understanding Attic tragedy. Starting from anthropological insights, and drawing on Aristotle?s theory of the specific ?tragic? reactions of ?shock and horror? as well as his propositions on the ?tragic? violation of fundamental social values, Des Bouvrie argues that the participating community in fifth-century Greece, for instance at the Dionysia, the Athenian dramatic festival, assembled as a collective body engaging in a program of ?prescribed sentiments.? She identifies this program as a ?tragic process? that mobilized the audience into revitalizing their institutional order, the unquestionable values sustaining the oikos and preserving the polis.00Des Bouvrie?s novel, not to say revolutionary, and explicitly ?anthropological? approach, consists in focusing primarily on the ?tragic workings? of Attic tragedy. While Euripides is singled out ? with astute readings of Heracleidae, Andromache, Hecuba, Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia in Tauris and Iphigenia at Aulis on offer - the author?s earlier work on other Greek tragedians suggests that these features were operating in the genre as such. For students and scholars interested in ancient Greek tragedy, this volume constitutes a remarkable contribution. It will significantly further studies of the tragic genre as well as stimulate new debate.

Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199978824
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy written by Simon Goldhill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new light on Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist, illuminating such aspects of his work as his manipulation of irony, his construction of dialogue, and his deployment of the actors and the chorus. Goldhill also investigates how nineteenth-century critics like Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wagner developed a specific understanding of tragedy, one that has shaped our current approach to the genre. Finally, Goldhill addresses one of the foundational questions of literary criticism: how historically self-conscious should a reading of Greek tragedy be? The result is an invigorating and exciting new interpretation of the most canonical of Western authors.

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: