Tragically Speaking - On the Use and Abuse of Theory for Life

Informationen zum Autor Kalliopi Nikolopoulou is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Buffalo. Klappentext Kalliopi Nikolopoulou is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Buffalo. Zusammenfassung From German idealism onward! Western thinkers have sought to revalue tragedy! invariably converging at one cardinal point: tragic art risks aestheticizing real violence. Tragically Speaking critically examines this revaluation! offering a new understanding of the changing meaning of tragedy in literary and moral discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Old Quarrels1: Orient/Occident, Ancients/Moderns: The Tyranny of Theory over Greece2: An Old Quarrel: Poetry and PhilosophyPart II: For the Love of Truth3: Habeas Corpus: Foucault's Fearless Speech4: Plato's Courts: Phaedrus and Apology 5: Euripides' Verdict: The Bacchae Part III: Passions6: ???a ??µat?essa: On Antigone 7: Antigone's ChildrenAppendixNotesWork CitedIndex

Product details

• Authors: Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, Nikolopoulou Kalliopi
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9780803240919
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-4091-9
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Symploke Studies in Contempora; Symploke Studies in Contemporary Theory; Symploke Studies in Contempora
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies