...Michael Dutton From Culture Industry to Mao Industry: A Greek Tragedy Michael Dutton Essentially, there are two ideal types of politics in this world, one that intensifies political conviction and ‘‘throws’’ the subject, the other...

... and human meaning as such. tragedy the tragic Greek tragedy neoclassical tragedy Emil Staiger References Brooks Peter . 1976 . The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Carlson Marvin...

... a political agent at Thebes, as in Oedipus at Colonus, and these need not produce “our” familiar Antigone: see Brooke Holmes, “Antigone at Colonus and the End(s) of Tragedy,” in “The Enig- matic Context: Approaches to Greek Drama,” ed. Richard Rader and James Henderson Collins II, special issue, Ramus...

... and the Narrative of the Universal / 81 George Steinmetz / The Genealogy of a Positivist Haunting: Comparing Prewar and Postwar U.S. Sociology / 109 Marilyn Ivy / In/Comparable Horrors: Total War and the Japanese Thing / 137 Michael Dutton / From Culture Industry to Mao Industry: A Greek Tragedy / 151...

... Rosa Coldfield, her author suggests a twoness of will. First, the persona , to whom Clytie is a “nigger” and for which reason Charles Bon lay dead one day, and his half brother, a bloody-handed fratricide, shocks the reader with the kind of speech that might belong to the stage of Greek tragedy. Rosa...

... capability to imagine. 132 boundary 2 / Fall 2013 the spectacle as an element of tragedy and what the consequences are of moral philosophy’s making the effort to regulate the Athenians’ way of seeing. My premise is that Aristotle’s interest and effort in the Greek tragic spectacles...

.... He criticizes Aristotle for having suggested that there was a sameness to the operations of what Williams terms “stark fictions”: “One of the several disservices that Aristotle rendered to the understanding of Greek tragedy was that of generating the idea that there is some one specific effect...

... and Dionysus function in binary oppo- sition; the former sustains the dominant ideology, while the latter reverses it. Hence one might posit that there is some affinity between philology and theory, since “the love of language”—the literal meaning of the Greek word involves in the work of Nietzsche...

... by even the very best intentioned), as a predicament, is at its origin a pharmakon: pharmacological being is originally mystagogic in that the pharmakon, by its very nature, endlessly returns to what Greek tragedy calls enigma. Enigma was for the Greeks a profane figure of mystery in a society...

... understanding of James’s relation to tragic thinking and its politics resides in David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). In relation to the specific problematic at hand, see also Emily Greenwood, Afro- Greeks: Dialogues between...

... Walter Benjamin to George Steiner, who repeatedly heralded its “death,” tragedy has not only survived but even flourished around the world over the last few decades. Whether it is Nigerian, Haitian, Irish, or Greek plays on the stage; new translations into several languages and media; original...

... the locomotives down these rails. The masks, be they of cowardice or oppor- tunism, succeed each other as in Greek tragedy. The excessive pride of believing oneself to be the master of truth, and the consequent repression...

...- ogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Uni- versity Press, 2014). Porter / The Sublime without Longinus 105 into the modern world, whether as a proto-­neoclassicist à la Boi- leau or as a proto-­romantic...

... in Borges’s story is supposed to have a historical aspect, as attested to by its epigraph, taken from Renan’s Averroès et l’averroïsme: “S’imaginant que la tragédie n’est autre chose que l’art de louer . . .” There are, of course, two ancient Greek words prompting this worry and stymieing his reading...

...—all of which reflect Cavafy's engagement with British colonialism in Egypt. The novelist and critic Stratis Tsirkas, also a Greek who grew up in Egypt, has argued that Cavafy's rising aversion to the British occupation regime developed alongside the shifting ideological lines of the Hellenic diaspora...

... runs from Rousseau's ( 1960 : 126) veneration of the intransitive production of festival, in which “the spectators become an entertainment to themselves,” through Nietzsche's reconstruction of the birth of Greek tragedy from the spirit of collective music creation in Dionysian rites...

...T. C. Marshall Abstract In his late unpublished essay “Dionysus in 1992,” Norman O. Brown arrived at the ancient Greek term “spoudaiogeloion” to express his idea of a “serious laughter” that could respond to dialectical tensions without unbalancing them. Brown had, in 1959, converted Freud's Witz...

...: Harvard University Press, 2012). 19. Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd ed. (London, 1755–­56). Simpson / Toward a Theory of Terror 15 turn of events that is also a bringing to an end, and a bad one. In Greek tragedy, the bad things done by men...

... of various sorts. Pfaller arrives at these conclusions through various examples. In his writings, we come across Jacques Lacan's ( 1992 : 71–73) discussion of the chorus in Greek tragedy, which, according to the psychoanalyst, performs the function of feeling fear and compassion vicariously—feeling on behalf...

... polity” (AS, 206) of exiles, slaves, barbarians, and, in this case, women ousted from the sovereignty order of the polis as its rogues and beasts. Despite the great historical divide between the ancient Greek polis and the American polis, the reconstellation of these two discrepant histories...