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Informationen zum Autor Olga Taxidou is Professor of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig (Routledge, 1998) and of Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (Edinburgh University Press, 2004) and co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (Edinburgh University Press, 1998) and of Post-War Cinema and Modernism: A Film Reader (Edinburgh University Press, 2000). She is co-editor with Vassiliki Kolocotroni of The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pk, 2020) and with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Jane Goldman, Modernism: an Anthology of Sources and Documents (Edinburgh University Press, 1998, 2000). Klappentext 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 inform our cherished philosophical, psychoanalytical, and modern interpretations of Greek tragedy. By challenging our approaches the text 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 Hölderlin, 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 interpretations of Greek tragedy* Performance based * Attentive to issues of genderThis powerful reinterpretation of Greek tragedy focuses on the performative - the physical and civic - dimension of tragedy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1.The Allure of Antigone or Antigone and the Philosophers; 2. Oedipus/Anti-Oedipus: the Philosopher, the Actor and the Patient; 3.Trauerspiel, Tragedy and Epic; 4. Euripides and Aristotle: Friends in Mourning; 5. The Heroism of Hercules and the Beauty of Helen; 6. Mourning and Tragic Form; 7. Brecht, Beckett, Müller: Modern Tragedy and Engagement....
