The Experiences Of Tiresias
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The Experiences Of Tiresias
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Author : Nicole Loraux
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
The Experiences Of Tiresias written by Nicole Loraux and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with History categories.
Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. The Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body, captures this ambivalence in exploring how the Greek male defines himself in relationship to the feminine. In these essays, Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women, a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine. Turning to epic and to Socrates, however, she insists on a logic of an inclusiveness between the genders, which casts a shadow over their clear, officially defined borders. The emphasis falls on the body, often associated with feminine vulnerability and weakness, and often dissociated from the ideal of the brave, self-sacrificing male warrior. But heroes such as the Homeric Achilles, who fears yet fights bravely, and Socrates, who speaks of the soul through the language of the body, challenge these representations. The anatomy of pain, the heroics of childbirth, the sorrows of tears, the warrior's wounds, and the madness of the soul: all these experiences are shown to engage with both the masculine and the feminine in ways that do not denigrate the experiences for either gender. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Tiresias
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Author : Thomas Woolner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Tiresias written by Thomas Woolner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with English poetry categories.
Horrorism
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Author : Adriana Cavarero
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2009
Horrorism written by Adriana Cavarero and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Philosophy categories.
Words like 'terrorism' and 'war' are no longer capable of encompassing the scope of cntemporary violence. With this book, Cavarero effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word, 'horrorism', to capture the experience of violence.
Les Exp Riences De Tir Sias
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Author : Nicole Loraux
language : fr
Publisher: Editions Gallimard
Release Date : 1989
Les Exp Riences De Tir Sias written by Nicole Loraux and has been published by Editions Gallimard this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Athens (Greece) categories.
"D'abord, les historiens crurent au "miracle grec", mirage d'une civilisation de lumière crue, de philosophie abstraite, de figuration géométrique. Puis ils découvrirent une Grèce contrastée, travaillée par la polarité, par les oppositions de la culture et de la nature, de la Cité et de la barbarie, de l'homme-citoyen et de la femme mineure. Vient aujourd'hui, avec Nicole Loraux, l'heure d'une Grèce troublée, en demi-teinte, où ne préside plus seulement l'exclusion, mais où agissent l'échange et l'ambivalence. Car il ne suffit pas d'écouter le discours officiel de la Cité sur le héros viril, sans corps ni reproches, prêt à mourir superbement pour la communauté des citoyens. Il faut entendre ce que dit l'épopée, qui, depuis Homère, forme les esprits et éduque la jeunesse avec des représentations concurrentes. Ici, l'identité de l'homme ne s'oppose plus à celle de la femme, elle y puise : le guerrier est plus viril d'abriter en soi la féminité, le héros est plus valeureux d'avoir un jour, tel Achille, eu peur et pleuré. Il n'est bientôt jusqu'à la philosophie qui ne fasse, avec Platon, la part de la femme dans l'homme, puisqu'il faut bien accoucher de la vérité ou triompher, dans la contemplation du Bien, des affolements de l'âme. À cette fascination de la Grèce pour l'Autre féminin, que nous révèle Nicole Loraux, la Cité mit toujours bon ordre, réduisant le mixte de l'homme et l'emprunt fait à la femme par le rejet, l'oubli et la représentation abstraite et sans faille de ses figures éponymes : le guerrier, le citoyen, le philosophe. Le berger Tirésias perdit la vue pour avoir un jour aperçu le corps dévoilé d'Athéna ; la Grèce, à force de voiler le féminin, finit par s'aveugler et, avec elle, nombre d'historiens. Il ne sera plus possible, après l'ouvrage de Nicole Loraux, de croire encore à tout ce que la Grèce nous a raconté d'elle-même."--Page 4 of cover.
Tragic Ways Of Killing A Woman
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Author : Nicole Loraux
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1991
Tragic Ways Of Killing A Woman written by Nicole Loraux and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Drama categories.
In ordinary life an Athenian woman was allowed no accomplishments beyond leading a quiet, exemplary existence as wife and mother. In Greek tragedy, however, women die violently and, through violence, master their fate. Through her reading of these texts, Loraux elicits an array of insights into Greek attitudes toward death, sexuality, and gender.
The Judgment Of Paris
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Author : Hubert Damisch
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-06-15
The Judgment Of Paris written by Hubert Damisch and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-15 with Art categories.
Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas of sexual difference and pleasure. Damisch's tale begins with the judgment of Paris, in which Paris awards Venus the golden apple and thus forever links beauty with desire. The casting of this decision as a mistake—in which desire is rewarded over wisdom and strength—is then linked to theories of the unconscious and psychological drives. In his quest for an exposition of the beautiful in its relation to visual pleasure, Damisch employs what he terms “analytic iconology,” following the revisions and repetitions of the motif of the judgment through art history, philosophy, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. This translation brings an important figure of the French art historical tradition to Anglo-American audiences.
Physical Pain And Justice
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Author : Gary Rosenshield
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-10-04
Physical Pain And Justice written by Gary Rosenshield and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-04 with History categories.
It has been said that all great literature is about suffering. But before the twentieth century, physical pain, one of the most primal forms of human suffering, has rarely been represented on the stage and in fiction. But when it is foregrounded in works of literature, it is not only the most dramatic way of representing human suffering, it is also used to explore, in the most intense form, existential questions regarding the meaning of human existence and the justice of the universe. Perhaps it is not entirely coincidental, then, that imaginative works about physical pain, though few in number, figure prominently among the masterpieces of the western literary tradition. The best were written during two of the west's most astonishing periods of literary creativity, fifth-century-BC Athens and nineteenth-century Russia, and by the most prominent artists of their time: Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes by Sophocles; Notes from the House of the Dead by Dostoevsky; and The Death of Ivan Ilyich and War and Peace by Tolstoy. In all these works, physical pain is always portrayed as a dynamic process that includes the view point of the victim, the perpetrator (much of the physical pain is in the form of torture), and the onlooker or witness. In the Greek works, physical pain is the main vehicle for exposing the injustice of the gods and the world order, and in the Russian works for questioning the moral legitimacy of the state. In Prometheus Bound, Zeus delegitimizes his rule by torturing Prometheus for his service to mankind. In The Women of Trachis, the gods look indifferently upon the excruciating suffering of Hercules, the greatest Greek hero. In Philoctetes, the gods cruelly exploit the terrible pain of the hero as a means of winning victory at Troy for their Greek wards. In the Russian works, the mechanisms for inflicting the maximum amount of physical pain during corporal punishment undermine the moral foundations of the state and argue for its dissolution. Though the Greek and Russian works are separated by genre (plays vs novels) and by time (over two thousand years), they are united by the way they employ pain to investigate the justice—or rather injustice—of the world order.
Antigone In The Americas
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Author : Andrés Fabián Henao Castro
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2021-07-01
Antigone In The Americas written by Andrés Fabián Henao Castro and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-01 with Philosophy categories.
Sophocles's classical tragedy, Antigone, is continually reinvented, particularly in the Americas. Theater practitioners and political theorists alike revisit the story to hold states accountable for their democratic exclusions, as Antigone did in disobeying the edict of her uncle, Creon, for refusing to bury her brother, Polynices. Antigone in the Americas not only analyzes the theoretical reception of Antigone, when resituated in the Americas, but further introduces decolonial rumination as a new interpretive methodology through which to approach classical texts. Traveling between modern present and ancient past, Andrés Fabián Henao Castro focuses on metics (resident aliens) and slaves, rather than citizens, making the feminist politics of burial long associated with Antigone relevant for theorizing militant forms of mourning in the global south. Grounded in settler colonial critique, black and woman of color feminisms, and queer and trans of color critique, Antigone in the Americas offers a more radical interpretation of Antigone, one relevant to subjects situated under multiple and interlocking systems of oppression.
The Memory Of The Eyes
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Author : Georgia Frank
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-05-11
The Memory Of The Eyes written by Georgia Frank 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 2000-05-11 with History categories.
Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. Through an original analysis of pilgrim writings of this period, Georgia Frank discovers a literary imagination at work, one that both recorded and shaped the experience of pilgrimage to living saints. Taking an important new approach to these texts, Frank finds in them a record of the writers’ and readers’ spiritual expectations and uses these fresh insights to add substantially to our understanding of the purposes and practices of pilgrimage. Frank focuses in particular on two important and well-known early texts—The History of the Monks in Egypt (ca. 400) and Palladius’s The Lausiac History (ca. 420), situating these narratives in their literary, historical, and spiritual contexts. She compares these narratives to exotic travel writing and to tales of otherworldly journeys. Bringing in contemporary theory, she demonstrates the importance of sight as a means of spiritual progress and explores the relation between the function of sight in these narratives and in other expressions of visual piety in late antiquity Christianity, such as the veneration of relics and, eventually, icons. With its unique focus on the sensory dimensions of pilgrimage—especially visuality—this absorbing book widens our understanding of early Christian pilgrims and those who read their accounts. At the same time, it also sheds new light on the relation between religious experience and the senses, on literary representations of visual experience, and on the literature of pious travel.
T S Eliot
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Author : Shakti Batra
language : en
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
Release Date : 2001
T S Eliot written by Shakti Batra and has been published by Sarup & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.