...William Flesch In Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection , Angus Fletcher rightly argues against the idea, enthusiastically embraced by literary Darwinism, that evolution explains how exquisitely the individual mind and perhaps the progressive...

...Angus Fletcher Against the idea that there is one true form of tragedy that can anchor a universal human ethics, Darwinism suggests that life is filled with endless kinds of tragic circumstance. But even as this biological view of tragedy spells the end of moral idealism, it opens up an inclusive...

... in which there is no centralized control and in which chance often plays a major role (tragedies, comedies, most novels and films). I argue that the principal reason for the incompatibility of emergent behavior with narrative understanding is its massive distribution of causal agents—a complexity...

...Christian Biet; Karel Vanhaesebrouck This article investigates the way the notion of constraint could be extended to theater studies and theater history, focusing on the case of French classical tragedy in the seventeenth century. Can classical poetics be regarded as a set of constraints? Rather...

... reform. Those arguments highlight different key figures and events yet draw on similar narrative genres to frame them. Importantly, high genres of heroic romance inspire elevation toward one's own side by celebrating victories and lamenting tragedies, and low genres of satire inspire contempt toward...

... Curran has argued from different evidence, essentially neoclassical. Viewed in the light of Racinian tragedy, however, or even in the more restricted context of the post-Restoration English drama, Shelley's style appears radically mixed, not an antithesis to twentieth-century approaches to mimesis...

... becomes a character in a plot similar to those of Victorian novels or Shakespearean tragedies. Both of these myths rely on questionable assumptions:that any permutation of a collection of lexias results in a coherent story;that it is aesthetically desirable to be the hero of a story; and that digital...

... the idea: perspectival mechanisms, which foster incongruity/superiority between participants in a narrative and thus enable comedies to turn someone’s unhappiness into a funny thing. Also, Zupančič mistakes causal and temporal development for a feature of tragedy as against comedy, rather than identifying...

... as a particularly rich test case in which stereotypes and clichés abound: a grumpy and “dirty” old man sees in aging nothing but decline, tragedy, and an accumulation of illnesses—associations that age scholars have challenged for decades. These stereotypes, however, also have less predictable affordances...

... , text and translation (Paris: Les Belles Lettres). Held, G. F. 1995 Aristotle's Teleological Theory of Tragedy and Epic (Heidelberg: Winter). Hellwig, A. 1973 Untersuchungen zur Theorie der Rhetorik bei Platon und Aristoteles (Göttingen:Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht). Jung, W. 1997...

... the challenge and take control of the situation. By compar- ing Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Racine’s Phaedra, Kafalenos shows how a revenge tragedy like Hamlet (and the same could be said about Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy) emphasizes the hesitations of the avenger to expand function C (meeting...

... of which was published in Hebrew in 2009, is to reexamine certain aspects of Aristotle’s Poetics in terms which are “more relevant to modern theory” (xii) than what Gabriel Zoran believes to be a prevailing and neoclassically influenced preoccupation with the work’s ideas of tragedy, genre, and mimesis...

... 4, CBSNews.com , www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/11/september11/main521521.shtml .” Cervantes, Lorna Dee 2001 “Palestine,” Poetry.About.com , September 12, poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa091201c.htm . Collins, Billy 2001 “Poetry and Tragedy,” U.S.A. Today , September 25...

... Macbeth (2013). He edited the essay collections Alternative Shakespeares (1985, 2005), Shakespearean Tragedy (1994), Tragedy ( jointly) (1998) and has contributed articles and reviews to various journals and chapters to a number of collections. He was general editor of the Routledge English Texts...

... and individual tragedies around which regulation debates revivify. Prior anthologies, such as the University of Iowa Press's 2002 Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America (Suárez and Van Cleave 2002 ) and Wave Books’ 2008 State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (Beckman and Zapruder 2008...

...” is addressed to the titular city. Second, in Greek culture the long O! was sometimes related to ritual use, as testified to by lamentations from Aeschylus's tragedies ( The Persians , line 985, and Agamemnon , line 1214), among others. When the poet's aim was to highlight this second meaning...

..., Catherine Lundie (1994: 131) writes: “Readers and critics see the story as a tragedy of racism, of the slave system. But in fact it is something much more specific: a tragedy of the African American woman. The condition of being black and female is much more debilitating than that of being black...

...–1873 , edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, 873 -90 (Berlin: de Gruyter). Nussbaum, Martha 1986 The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 1990 Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (New...

... dead to delimited geographical places, often through local tragedies and traumas, is not uncommon in supernatural fiction and sees the returned dead functioning, in part, as carriers of site-specific histori- cal narratives, whether individual or collective, social or cultural (Del Pilar Blanco...

... the true cause of the crash functioned as a closure in the New York Post , the Los Angeles Times provided some extensions to the narrative. Closer to Paterniti's article, the Los Angeles Times provided, for instance, a retrospective account of the tragedy to give more flesh to the story, which...