...; and as a genre embroiled in emotion and trauma, it can speak to all sides wounded by conflict without moralizing. It is in the hero's direct encounter with and response to conflict and violence, what Raymond Williams calls “its experience, its comprehension, and its resolution,” that the essay locates tragedy's...

... the audience in the same transitional space that South Africa is itself experiencing. Spatially, Molora forestalls both the universalizing impulse of tragedy and the monumentalizing impulse of reconciliation. Temporally, it provides neither the firm tragic telos nor the temporal conflations implied...

...Blair Hoxby We owe our idea of tragedy and our tragic repertoire to a generation of romantic critics who, writing in the shadow of Kant, demanded that tragedies display organic form, express the spirit of a nation, and stage a collision between freedom and necessity. Their formula obscures aspects...

...Leah Kronenberg Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid : Ritual, Empire, and Intertext . By Panoussi Vassiliki . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . 257 p. © 2011 by University of Oregon 2011 Works Cited Bandera Cesáreo . “Sacrificial Levels in Virgil's Aeneid...

... between tragedy and ceremonial theater went through four major phases: 1) sponsored by the state, tragedy was initially continuous with ceremonial theater; 2) finding a new source of the tragic in the implacable conflict between public sovereign power and insistent desires of the royal flesh, Racine...

...Richard J. Golsan The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France. By Mary Ann Frese Witt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. 259 p. University of Oregon 2003 BOOK REVIEWS/177...

... . Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003 . Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957 . Gellrich, Michelle. Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988 . Girard, René. Violence...

...Christopher Braider Walter Benjamin confides to his friend Hugo von Hofmannsthal that “I sometimes think about writing a book on French tragedy as a counterpart to my Trauerspiel book,” noting that his “plan for the latter had originally been to elucidate both the German Trauerspiel and the French...

... for Comoran clandestine migrants, thousands of whom have perished on the treacherous sea crossing since 1995. In her novel Tropique de la violence (2016), Mauritian author Nathacha Appanah inscribes the Mahoran tragedy within a global imaginary of migration. This essay explores the risks and merits...

... and the garbled telegram in the Recherche are psychologically therapeutic exercises in misreading and gestures toward paths not taken. But in Nabokov’s case, it is also an experiment in writing the kind of literary freedom he theorized in his 1941 lecture on drama titled “The Tragedy of Tragedy.” The article...

... for, English dramatic works. This essay introduces Brandt and his intellectual milieu, demonstrating how and why he turned to Hamlet in an early investigation of revenge tragedy and political realism. From the dynamic plots to the histrionic style of performance, English drama offered Brandt a vision...

... mainstream debates about the legacy of the Troubles. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler and Bonnie Honig, this essay reads Heaney's play within a series of critical debates about representations of female victimhood, the role of women in transitional justice, and the ongoing importance of tragedy within...

...: The Late Renaissance in Italy . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1962 . Heinsius, Daniel. De Tragoediae Constitutione: On Plot in Tragedy . 1611. Trans. Paul R. Sellin and John J. McManmon. Northridge, CA: San Fernando Valley Stage College, 1971 . Hitchcock, H. Wiley. Marc-Antoine Charpentier...

... of infinite reflection, seemingly “from out of nowhere” (L’Éthique 303). This is particularly accom- plished, as it was for Hegel, by the quasi-subject that is the work of art. With Lacan’s Ethics of psychoanalysis the dramatic character of Antigone in Sophocles’ tragedy at a certain point in the play...

.... The remarkable richness of these texts is due in part to their participation in literary genres (tragedy, the ancient novel, martyrological poetry) in which questions of repre- sentation and spectacle, as well as truth and revelation, are paramount. These are texts Comparative Literature 63:3  © 2011...

... on Terror. The remarkable richness of these texts is due in part to their participation in literary genres (tragedy, the ancient novel, martyrological poetry) in which questions of repre- sentation and spectacle, as well as truth and revelation, are paramount. These are texts Comparative...

..., Ballengee is able to invest the ancient texts with more power to illuminate recent events in the War on Terror. The remarkable richness of these texts is due in part to their participation in literary genres (tragedy, the ancient novel, martyrological poetry) in which questions of repre- sentation...

... gloomily and, as it turned out, modestly wondered about the possibility of saying anything new about a subject as endlessly chewed over as the ques- tion of the origin of tragedy. Gloomily, because of all the puzzles left us by antiquity, tragedy remains one of the most stubborn and least likely ever...

... gloomily and, as it turned out, modestly wondered about the possibility of saying anything new about a subject as endlessly chewed over as the ques- tion of the origin of tragedy. Gloomily, because of all the puzzles left us by antiquity, tragedy remains one of the most stubborn and least likely ever...

... gloomily and, as it turned out, modestly wondered about the possibility of saying anything new about a subject as endlessly chewed over as the ques- tion of the origin of tragedy. Gloomily, because of all the puzzles left us by antiquity, tragedy remains one of the most stubborn and least likely ever...