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Informationen zum Autor Wayne Jeffrey Froman is associate professor of philosophy at George Mason University. John Burt Foster, Jr., is professor of English at George Mason University. Klappentext Dramas of Culture is the first volume in the TEXTURES: Philosophy/Literature/Culture series to study drama as a cultural effect, linking theatricality to main currents of continental philosophical thinking, cultural critique, and literary theory and interpretation-from Aristotle to contemporary cultural studies. The twelve interwoven interdisciplinary essays focus on the dramatic strategies deployed in cultural discourse and on the cultural meanings embedded in key dramatic writings in the Western repertoire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 General Introduction Part 2 Part One: Second Thoughts on the Cultural Turn Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1. A Culture of Inclusion: Politics and Poetry Chapter 5 2. The Narrative of Culture: "Burkean" Perspectives Chapter 6 3. The Spectacle of Cultural Studies: Marcel Duchamp and the Return of the Repressed Part 7 Part Two: Dramatic Categories in Cultural Discourse Chapter 8 Introduction Chapter 9 4. Setting the Scene: Judging Kenneth Burke Judging Chapter 10 5. Politics as Melodrama: Revolutions, Empty Signifiers, and the Political Sublime Chapter 11 6. Gendering Tragic Conflict: Hegel's Antigone and the Vicissitudes of the Dialectic Part 12 Part Three: Rethinking Tragedy Chapter 13 Introduction Chapter 14 7. Heidegger's Antigone: From Agonistic Nietzscheanism to Reconciliation with Otherness Chapter 15 8. Characterless Tragedy: The Limits of Philosophical Catharsis Chapter 16 9. Choreography of Fate: Lorca's Reconfiguration of the Tragic Part 17 Part Four: Staging History, Posthistory, Parahistory Chapter 18 Introduction Chapter 19 10. Shakespeare's Richard II: History as Shadowplay Chapter 20 11. Molière's Don Juan: Breaking Promises, But Not a Date with History Chapter 21 12. Heiner Müller's Parahistory: Beyond Marx and Brecht...
