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Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance

Author : Olga Taxidou
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performan
ISBN 13 : 9781399511094
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance written by Olga Taxidou and published by Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performan. This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance. Through a series of events / instances / poses that engage visual, literary and performing arts, the modernist love/hate relationship with classical Greek tragedy is read as contributing to a modernist notion of theatricality, one that follows a double motion, revising both our understanding of Greek tragedy and of modernism itself. Isadora Duncan, Edward Gordon Craig, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, H. D, and Bertolt Brecht and their various, sometimes successful sometimes failed experiments in creating a modernist aesthetic in performing, dancing, translating, designing Greek tragedies, sometimes for the stage and sometimes for the page, are presented as radical experiments in and gestures towards the autonomy of performance. In the process the artists of the theatre themselves - the actor, the designer, the director, the playwright - are reconfigured and given a lineage and genealogy, through this modernist revision of tragedy and the tragic not as as a philosophical or philological tradition, but as a performance practice.

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age

Author : Jennifer Wallace
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135015511X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age by : Jennifer Wallace

Download or read book A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age written by Jennifer Wallace and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book leading scholars come together to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging overview of tragedy in theatre and other media from 1920 to the present. The 20th century is often considered to have witnessed the death of tragedy as a theatrical genre, but it was marked by many tragic events and historical catastrophes, from two world wars and genocide to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the anticipation and onset of climate change. The authors in this volume wrestle with this paradox and consider the degree to which the definitions, forms and media of tragedy were transformed in the modern period and how far the tragic tradition-updated in performance-still spoke to 20th- and 21st-century challenges. While theater remains the primary focus of investigation in this strikingly illustrated book, the essays also cover tragic representation-often re-mediated, fragmented and provocatively questioned-in film, art and installation, photography, fiction and creative non-fiction, documentary reporting, political theory and activism. Since 24/7 news cycles travel fast and modern crises cross borders and are reported across the globe more swiftly than in previous centuries, this volume includes intercultural encounters, various forms of hybridity, and postcolonial tragic representations. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque

Author : Kate Armond
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147441964X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque written by Kate Armond and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian Poetics

New Theatre Quarterly 79: Volume 20, Part 3

Author : Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521603287
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis New Theatre Quarterly 79: Volume 20, Part 3 by : Simon Trussler

Download or read book New Theatre Quarterly 79: Volume 20, Part 3 written by Simon Trussler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.

Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy

Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521865220
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy written by David Wiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-09 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.

The Transformations of Tragedy

Author : Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004416544
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis The Transformations of Tragedy by : Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning

Download or read book The Transformations of Tragedy written by Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Transformations of Tragedy: Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern explores the influence of Christian theology and culture upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy. The volume is divided into three parts: early modern, modern, and contemporary. This series of essays by established and emergent scholars offers a sustained study of Christianity’s creative influence upon experimental forms of Western tragic drama. Both early modern and modern tragedy emerged within periods of remarkable upheaval in Church history, yet Christianity’s diverse influence upon tragedy has too often been either ignored or denounced by major tragic theorists. This book contends instead that the history of tragedy cannot be sufficiently theorised without fully registering the impact of Christianity in transition towards modernity.

Close Relations

Author : Paul Monaghan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527551407
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Close Relations written by Paul Monaghan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “spatial turn” of the 1990s has inspired many academics to re-evaluate the importance of space and time within their own disciplines and to engage in productive dialogue with other disciplines whose spatial focus intersects with their own. This book applies insights and approaches generated by the “spatial turn” to Greek and Roman theatre. The title evokes the “close relations” that exist between the many aspects and notions of space-time and their complex interweaving, between the disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches that are needed to understand complex spatial phenomena, between notions of space in general and those of theatrical space, and between Greek and Roman theatre as it existed in antiquity and as it has been “received,” interpreted, and transformed throughout history ever since.

Choruses, Ancient and Modern

Author : Joshua Billings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199670579
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Choruses, Ancient and Modern written by Joshua Billings and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient singing and dancing chorus has exerted a powerful influence in the modern world. This is the first book to look systematically at the points of similarity and difference between ancient and modern choruses, across time and place, in their ancient contexts in modern theatre, opera, dance, musical theatre, and in political debate.

Greek Tragedy in 20th-Century Italian Literature

Author : Caterina Paoli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350186171
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Greek Tragedy in 20th-Century Italian Literature by : Caterina Paoli

Download or read book Greek Tragedy in 20th-Century Italian Literature written by Caterina Paoli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of poetic translations of Greek tragedy in 20th-century Italian poetry. The close examination of the linguistic and ideological diversity embedded in these authors' works shows how narratives of Greek tragedy shaped their poetic universe, and how their work influenced the Greek paradigm in return. The reader is presented with a textual analysis of Sbarbaro's and Bemporad's translations, as well as a discussion of larger cultural patterns. This volume provides a fresh perspective on the pedagogical commitment of the Italian poets and their roles as translators of classical studies. The web of relationships and historical context in which these authors are placed provide an understanding of their importance for a wider discourse on translation in Italy and Europe in the 1940s. Caterina Paoli's original analysis of Sbarbaro's and Bemporad's poetic translations and her emphasis on their relevance for translation studies, women's writing and classical reception, fills a significant gap in current scholarship on the translation of ancient literature in the Italian poetic community.

Modernism's Mythic Pose

Author : Carrie J. Preston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199384584
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Modernism's Mythic Pose written by Carrie J. Preston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics. Its central figure, the mythic pose, expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity.

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama

Author : Betine van Zyl Smit
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118347773
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama by : Betine van Zyl Smit

Download or read book A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama written by Betine van Zyl Smit and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete overview of the reception of ancient drama from antiquity to the present Covers the translation, transmission, performance, production, and adaptation of Greek tragedy from the time the plays were first created in ancient Athens through the 21st century Features overviews of the history of the reception of Greek drama in most countries of the world Includes chapters covering the reception of Greek drama in modern opera and film

Greek Tragedy and the Digital

Author : George Rodosthenous
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350185868
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedy and the Digital written by George Rodosthenous and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting an innovative and theoretical approach, Greek Tragedy and the Digital is an original study of the encounter between Greek tragedy and digital media in contemporary performance. It challenges Greek tragedy conventions through the contemporary arsenal of sound masks, avatars, live code poetry, new media art and digital cognitive experimentations. These technological innovations in performances of Greek tragedy shed new light on contemporary transformations and adaptations of classical myths, while raising emerging questions about how augmented reality works within interactive and immersive environments. Drawing on cutting-edge productions and theoretical debates on performance and the digital, this collection considers issues including performativity, liveness, immersion, intermediality, aesthetics, technological fragmentation, conventions of the chorus, theatre as hypermedia and reception theory in relation to Greek tragedy. Case studies include Kzryztof Warlikowski, Jan Fabre, Romeo Castellucci, Katie Mitchell, Georges Lavaudant, The Wooster Group, Labex Arts-H2H, Akram Khan, Urland & Crew, Medea Electronique, Robert Wilson, Klaus Obermaier, Guy Cassiers, Luca di Fusco, Ivo Van Hove, Avra Sidiropoulou and Jay Scheib. This is an incisive, interdisciplinary study that serves as a practice model for conceptualizing the ways in which Greek tragedy encounters digital culture in contemporary performance.

A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen

Author : Arthur J. Pomeroy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118741358
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen written by Arthur J. Pomeroy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by a team of experts in their fields, this work considers productions that discuss social settings as reflections of their times and as indicative of the technical advances in production and the economics of film and television. Productions included are a mix of Hollywood and European spanning from the silent film era though modern day television series, and topics discussed include Hollywood politics in film, soundtrack and sound design, high art and low art, European art cinemas, and the ancient world as comedy. Written for students of film and television as well as those interested in studies of ancient Rome and Greece, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen provides comprehensive, current thinking on how the depiction of Ancient Greece and Rome on screen has developed over the past century. It reviews how films of the ancient world mirrored shifting attitudes towards Christianity, the impact of changing techniques in film production, and fascinating explorations of science fiction and technical fantasy in the ancient world on popular TV shows like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, and Dr. Who.

Performing Antagonism

Author : Tony Fisher
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349951005
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Performing Antagonism written by Tony Fisher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines performance analysis with contemporary political philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political performance and the performativity of the politics of the street. Our times are pre-eminently political times and have drawn radical responses from many theatre and performance practitioners. However, a decade of conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the eruption of new social movements around the world, the growth of anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation struggles, the upsurge of protests against the blockades of neoliberalism, and the rising tide of dissent and anger against corporate power, with its exorbitant social costs, have left theatre and performance scholarship confronting something of a dilemma: how to theorize the political antagonisms of our day? Drawing on the resources of ‘post-Marxist’ political thinkers such as Chantal Mouffe and Jacques Rancière, the book explores how new theoretical horizons have been made available for performance analysis.

Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning

Author : Olga Taxidou
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748666052
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning by : Olga Taxidou

Download or read book Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning written by Olga Taxidou and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, psychoanalytical, and modern interpretations of Greek tragedy and, in doing so, asks us to renew our relation to these works and to our literary and philosophical inheritance.The book reassesses tragic form in relation to Athenian democracy and links it with a performative discourse that both excludes the feminine and relies on civic and private forms of mourning. At the same time, it explores the centrality of tragedy for thinkers of Modernity such as Holderlin, Nietzsche, Hegel, Freud, Brecht and Benjamin. Through a persuasive analysis of both classical theorists - Plato and Aristotle - and modern theorists - Benjamin, Lacan, Kristeva, Derrida and Butler - the book significantly shifts the emphasis from a Sophoclean model of tragedy to a Euripidean one. Close readings of the performance aspects of Greek play-texts help illuminate these ideas.Features* Compelling new interpretation of Greek tragedy * Performance based * Attentive to issues of gender

Moving Modernisms

Author : David Bradshaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198714173
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Moving Modernisms written by David Bradshaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological; temporal and epochal; technological, locomotive and metropolitan; aesthetic and representational. Individual essays explore modernism's complex geographies, focusing on Anglo-European modernisms while also engaging with the debates engendered by recent models of world literatures and global modernisms. From questions of space and place, the volume moves to a focus on movement and motion, with topics ranging from modernity and bodily energies to issues of scale and quantity. The final chapters in the volume examine modernist film and the moving image, and travel and transport in the modern metropolis. "Movement is reality itself," the philosopher Henri Bergson wrote: the original and illuminating essays in Moving Modernisms point in new ways to the realities, and the fantasies, of movement in modernist culture.

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

Author : Steven Connor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521648400
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism written by Steven Connor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, film, law, philosophy, architecture, religion and modern cultural studies. The volume also includes a useful guide to further reading and a chronology. This is an essential aid for students and teachers from a range of disciplines interested in postmodernism in all its incarnations. Accessible and comprehensive, this Companion addresses the many issues surrounding this elusive, enigmatic and often controversial topic.