Telling Tragedy
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Author |
: Barbara Goward |
Publisher |
: Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2004-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0715631764 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780715631768 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Telling Tragedy by : Barbara Goward
Using recent narrative theory, this book explores the narrative strategies that sustain the complex relationship between the tragic poet and his sophisticated audience. It discusses how these sprawling stories were typically shaped by Aeschylus into dramatic form; and, once established, how these patterns were successively adapted, subverted, capped or ignored by Sophocles and Euripides in the annual attempt to recreate suspense and express fresh meanings relevant to the difficult last decades of the fifth century.
Author |
: Frederick Buechner |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 2009-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061755309 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0061755303 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Telling Secrets by : Frederick Buechner
With eloquence, candor, and simplicity, a celebrated author tells the story of his father's alcohol abuse and suicide and traces the influence of this secret on his life as a son, father, husband, minister, and writer.
Author |
: Julia Cook |
Publisher |
: National Center for Youth Issues |
Total Pages |
: 33 |
Release |
: 2014-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781937870942 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1937870944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ant Hill Disaster by : Julia Cook
Will it happen again, Mama? After the Ant Hill School is destroyed, a little boy ant is afraid to go back to school. His mom caringly explains to him that sometimes things happen in life over which we have no control, but we have to find a way to keep living and growing. To do that, "We breathe in and breathe out, and hold onto each other. We shed a lot of tears, and we love one another. We all come together as a strong team of ONE, and then we rebuild, and get things done!" The Ant Hill Disaster thoughtfully addresses fears associated with both natural and man-caused disasters. It models effective parenting and teaching responses. This book can help assure children that through love, empathetic understanding, preparation, and effective communication, they can stand strong, even in the midst of uncontrollable events.
Author |
: Barbara Goward |
Publisher |
: Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106015538389 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Telling Tragedy by : Barbara Goward
An accessible application of narrative theory to the great tragedies of ancient Greece.
Author |
: Matthew Cole |
Publisher |
: Bold Type Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1568589069 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781568589060 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Code Over Country by : Matthew Cole
A hard-hitting exposé of SEAL Team 6, the US military's best-known brand, that reveals how the Navy SEALs were formed, then sacrificed, in service of American empire. The Navy SEALs are, in the eyes of many Americans, the ultimate heroes. When they killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, it was celebrated as a massive victory. Former SEALs rake in cash as leadership consultants for corporations, and young military-bound men dream of serving in their ranks. But the SEALs have lost their bearings. Investigative journalist Matthew Cole tells the story of the most lauded unit, SEAL Team 6, revealing a troubling pattern of war crimes and the deep moral rot beneath authorized narratives. From their origins in World War II, the SEALs have trained to be specialized killers with short missions. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan became the endless War on Terror, their violence spiraled out of control. Code Over Country details the high-level decisions that unleashed the SEALs' carnage and the coverups that prevented their crimes from coming to light. It is a necessary and rigorous investigation of the unchecked power of the military-and the harms enacted by and upon soldiers in America's name.
Author |
: Simon Sparks |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2005-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134654048 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134654049 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophy and Tragedy by : Simon Sparks
From Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, the theme of tragedy has been subject to radically conflicting philosophical interpretations. Despite being at the heart of philosophical debate from Ancient Greece to the Nineteenth Century, however, tragedy has yet to receive proper treatment as a philosophical tradition in its own right. Philosophy and Tragedy is a compelling contribution to that oversight and the first book to address the topic in a major way. Eleven new essays by internationally renowned philosophers clearly show how time and again, major thinkers have returned to tragedy in many of their key works. Philosophy and Tragedy aks why it is that thinkers as far apart as Hegel and Benjamin should make tragedy such an important theme in their work, and why, after Kant, an important strand of philosophy should present itself tragically. From Heidegger's reading of Sophocles' Antigone to Nietzsche and Benjamin's book-length studies of tragedy, Philosophy and Tragedy presents an outstanding and original study of this preoccupation. The five sections are organised clearly around five major philosophers: Hegel, Holderlin, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Benjamin
Author |
: William Deverell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2021-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1626400873 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781626400870 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kathy Fiscus by : William Deverell
In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartbreaking story of a young girl trapped in a well--a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in history. Kathy Fiscus tells the story of the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in American history. At dusk on a spring evening in 1949, a three-year old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft in the backyard of her family's home in Southern California. Across more than two full days of a fevered rescue attempt, the fate of Kathy Fiscus remained unknown. Thousands of concerned Southern Californians rushed to the scene. Jockeys hurried over from the nearby racetracks, offering to be sent down the well after Kathy. 20th Century Fox sent over the studio's klieg lights to illuminate the scene. Rescue workers-ditch diggers, miners, cesspool laborers, World War II veterans-dug and bored holes deep into the aquifer below, hoping to tunnel across to the old well shaft that the little girl had somehow tumbled down. The region, the nation, and the world watched and listened to every moment of the rescue attempt by way of radio, newsreel footage, and wire service reporting. They also watched live television. Because of the well's proximity to the radio towers on nearby Mount Wilson, the rescue attempt because the first breaking-news event to be broadcast live on television. The Kathy Fiscus event invented reality television and proved that real-time television news broadcasting could work and could transfix the public. William Deverell is professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous studies of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, including Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past.
Author |
: Rita Felski |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2008-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801887399 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801887390 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rethinking Tragedy by : Rita Felski
This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics. Seven new essays—as well as eight essays originally published in a New Literary History special issue on tragedy—address important, previously neglected areas of tragedy and postcolonial criticism. The new material explores the tragic dimensions of popular culture, the relationship between tragedy and pity, and feminism's avoidance of the tragic, and includes an incisive history of tragic theory. Classic and cutting-edge, this collection offers a provocative, accessible, and comprehensive treatment of tragedy and tragic theory. Contributors: Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich; Stanley Corngold, Princeton University; Simon Critchley, University of Essex; Joshua Foa Dienstag, University of California, Los Angeles; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University; Page duBois, University of California, San Diego; Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester; Rita Felski, University of Virginia; Simon Goldhill, Cambridge University; Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania; Michel Maffesoli, University of Paris (V); Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago; Timothy J. Reiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh
Author |
: Janet Farrar |
Publisher |
: Fulton Books, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 39 |
Release |
: 2023-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798887318691 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Telling of the Tragedy by : Janet Farrar
This book acknowledges that humans are still animals, but that these animals became highly intelligent and learned how to become the top species on the planet by conquering all obstacles. Humans have permanently left nature, and because we needed nature to survive, we will perish. Until we settled down, we were hunter-gatherers, living in harmony with the natural rhythms of the earth. We even thought of ourselves as animals, sharing the bounties of earth with all the other creatures. But, sure enough, we made that fateful decision to settle. Many people would have seen the danger in such a lifestyle, and no doubt, there was tremendous resistance. But those who settled eventually won out, so the human race became domesticated and thus gave nature up. The important thing to know is that this tragedy is no one's fault. It was like a lotus flower, gradually unfolding. We all want freedom, but free Homo sapiens have now destroyed the habitat. That second sapiens signified extra wisdom. No, we are not extra wise. We are Homo sapiens.
Author |
: Ioanna Karamanou |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2019-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110661279 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110661276 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Refiguring Tragedy by : Ioanna Karamanou
This book brings together case studies delving into different, unstudied aspects of the Nachleben of selected lost tragedies either in their once extant form or in their fragmentary state in later periods of time. It seeks to explore the ways in which the plays in question were reworked, discussed, represented or reperformed within varying frameworks. Notably enough, research on the reception of tragic fragments could yield insight not only into the receiving work, but also into the facets of the source text that have attracted attention in its subsequent refigurations. It could thus shed light on the ideological and cultural routes through which these fragmentary tragedies were received by the poet, the scholar, the artist, the viewer, the reader and the spectator in each case. The complex process of the refiguration of a fragmentarily preserved play within different contexts could form a yardstick of its cultural power and elucidate the dynamics of fragmentation in modern times. Τhe volume is of particular interest to scholars in the fields of classics, reception, cultural and performance studies, as well as to readers fascinated by Greek tragedy and its vibrant afterlife.