History And Tragedy
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A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Empire
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Author : Michael Gamer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-11-18
A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Age Of Empire written by Michael Gamer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with History categories.
How have ideas of the tragic influenced Western culture? How has tragedy been shaped by its social and cultural conditions? In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. Extending far beyond the established aesthetic tradition, the volumes describe the forms tragedy takes to represent human conflict and suffering, and how it engages with matters of philosophy, society, politics, religion and gender. Volume 5 covers the period 1800-1920.
A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Middle Ages
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Author : Rebecca Bushnell
language : en
Publisher: Cultural Histories
Release Date : 2019
A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Middle Ages written by Rebecca Bushnell and has been published by Cultural Histories this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
Examines 2,500 years of tragedy from a wide-range of perspectives including history, theatre and performing arts, literary studies, religion, philosophy, classics, and gender and sexuality.
A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Modern Age
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Author : Jennifer Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Cultural Histories
Release Date : 2021-11-18
A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Modern Age written by Jennifer Wallace and has been published by Cultural Histories this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with History categories.
How have ideas of the tragic influenced Western culture? How has tragedy been shaped by its social and cultural conditions? In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. Extending far beyond the established aesthetic tradition, the volumes describe the forms tragedy takes to represent human conflict and suffering, and how it engages with matters of philosophy, society, politics, religion and gender. Volume 6 covers the period 1920- the present.
A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Early Modern Age
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Author : Naomi Conn Liebler
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-20
A Cultural History Of Tragedy In The Early Modern Age written by Naomi Conn Liebler and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-20 with Performing Arts categories.
In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period and across geographic, political, and social references. They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary. 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.
Tragedy And Hope
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Author : Carroll Quigley
language : en
Publisher: New York : Macmillan [c1966]
Release Date : 1966
Tragedy And Hope written by Carroll Quigley and has been published by New York : Macmillan [c1966] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with History categories.
Shows 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Eur. in the 19th cent. to the world of 3 blocs in the 20th cent. Examines the nature of that transition through 2 world wars & a worldwide econ. depression, showing each event in the full complexity of its historical context.
The Tragedy Of Liberation
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Author : Frank Dikötter
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-08-29
The Tragedy Of Liberation written by Frank Dikötter and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with History categories.
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dikötter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.
A Cultural History Of Tragedy In Antiquity
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Author : Emily Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-20
A Cultural History Of Tragedy In Antiquity written by Emily Wilson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-20 with History categories.
In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented. Tragedy was consistently seen as the most serious of all dramatic genres; these essays trace a sequence of different visions of what the most serious kind of dramatic story might be, and the most appropriate ways of telling those stories on stage. 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.
The Tragedy Of Origins
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Author : John D. Lyons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Tragedy Of Origins written by John D. Lyons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
Studying the relationship between tragedy and history in early modern France, this book focuses on the work of Pierre Corneille, who was more insistent on the importance of this relationship than any of the other playwrights of the period. The writing of a tragedy takes place within a social context that deeply influences what constitutes "history", "tragedy", "authority", and "poetics". Yet such concepts are also practices that in turn shape the society in which they occur. We cannot look to drama for a kind of fossilized footprint or photographic plate of the period in which a play was written, nor can we assume that a playwright's images are simple escapes from a reality outside the theater. What is the relationship, in early seventeenth-century France, between tragedy and history as ways of telling about human experience? The author's readings of five Cornelian tragedies - Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte, Sertorius, and Attila - lead to a sustained reflection on the tragic structure as a confrontation between the present and the past. The "present" in question is the present of the world of the tragic story, not the present of the play's audience. In this sense, the present of Horace or Cinna is the same now as it was for the French of the 1630's and 1640's. Within these plays a present, a moment of Roman history, is confronted with its past. The author argues that this confrontation, which requires the recognition of an irreversible transformation, founds a new political and social order. The experience of this transformation is, for the protagonists, wrenching dislocation - in historical terms, an origin, and in dramatic terms, a tragedy.
Chernobyl
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Author : Serhii Plokhy
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-05-15
Chernobyl written by Serhii Plokhy and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with History categories.
A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (Wall Street Journal). On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else. Today, the risk of another Chernobyl looms in the mismanagement of nuclear power in the developing world. A moving and definitive account, Chernobyl is also an urgent call to action.
An Ottoman Tragedy
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Author : Gabriel Piterberg
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-09-04
An Ottoman Tragedy written by Gabriel Piterberg and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-04 with History categories.
Combines a reinterpretation of the history of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century with an analysis of the ways history is constructed by its participants.