Soul of Tragedy Essays on Athenian Drama

Name: Soul of Tragedy Essays on Athenian Drama
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ISBN: 9780226653068

ISBN-10: 0226653064

ISBN-13: 9780226653068

Edition: 2005

Authors: Victoria Pedrick, Steven M. Oberhelman

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The Soul of Tragedy brings together top scholars to offer a wide range of perspectives on Greek tragedy. The collection pays homage to this ancient, enduring theatrical and literary genre by offering a deep exploration into the oldest form of dramatic expression. It is a reminder that, for all their years, these dramas still have much to teach us. Exemplary of the nature and scope of this book, the essays range from Simon Goldhill's comparative study of music, gender, and culture to Martha Nussbaum's inspection of "the comic soul." Through the critical lenses of psychoanalysis, gender, social history, and philology, this compilation looks at Greek tragedy's peculiar power to illuminate the…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.09" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Tracy B. Strong is distinguished professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a former editor of Political Theory and the author or editor of many books, including Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Politics of the Ordinary, and The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World.ï¿½Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




The Geometry of Suffering


Aristotle on the Tragic Emotions



Divine and Human in Sophocles' Philoctetes



Euripides' Heaven



Dionysiac Triangles: The Politics of Culture in Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides




A Vast Continent of Sorrows


The Subject of Desire in Sophocles' Antigone



Beyond Sexual Difference: Becoming-Woman in Euripides' Bacchae



The Comic Soul: Or, This Phallus That Is Not One




The Ordinary Horrors of the Feminine


Women in Groups: Aeschylus's Suppliants and the Female Choruses of Greek Tragedy



Redeeming Matricide? Euripides Rereads the Oresteia



Clytemnestra's First Marriage: Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis




Cautionary Tales


Visuality and Temporality: Reading the Tragic Script



Music, Gender, and Hellenistic Society



The Tyranny of Germany over Greece



List of Contributors


Index of Key Passages