Tragically Speaking
Title | Tragically Speaking PDF eBook |
Author | Kalliopi Nikolopoulou |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0803244878 |
From German idealism onward, Western thinkers have sought to revalue tragedy, invariably converging at one cardinal point: tragic art risks aestheticizing real violence. Tragically Speaking critically examines this revaluation, offering a new understanding of the changing meaning of tragedy in literary and moral discourse. It questions common assumptions about the Greeks’ philosophical relation to the tragic tradition and about the ethical and political ramifications of contemporary theories of tragedy. Starting with the poet Friedrich Hölderlin and continuing to the present, Kalliopi Nikolopoulou traces how tragedy was translated into an idea (“the tragic”) that was then revised further into the “beyond the tragic” of postmetaphysical contemporary thought. While recognizing some of the merits of this revaluation, Tragically Speaking concentrates on the losses implicit in such a turn. It argues that by translating tragedy into an idea, these rereadings effected a problematic subordination of politics to ethics: the drama of human conflict gave way to philosophical reflection, bracketing the world in favor of the idea of the world. Where contemporary thought valorizes absence, passivity, the Other, rhetoric, writing, and textuality, the author argues that their “deconstructed opposites” (presence, will, the self, truth, speech, and action, all of which are central to tragedy) are equally necessary for any meaningful discussion of ethics and politics.
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Title | The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Hobbs |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2015-07-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1476731918 |
Jeff Hobbs tells the story of Robert DeShaun Peace, who went from a New Jersey ghetto to Yale but never truly escaped his past.
Tragic Views of the Human Condition
Title | Tragic Views of the Human Condition PDF eBook |
Author | Lourens Minnema |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2013-06-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441100695 |
Can tragic views of the human condition as known to Westerners through Greek and Shakespearean tragedy be identified outside European culture, in the Indian culture of Hindu epic drama? In what respects can the Mahabharata epic's and the Bhagavadgita's views of the human condition be called 'tragic' in the Greek and Shakespearean senses of the word? Tragic views of the human condition are primarily embedded in stories. Only afterwards are these views expounded in theories of tragedy and in philosophical anthropologies. Minnema identifies these embedded views of human nature by discussing the ways in which tragic stories raise a variety of anthropological issues-issues such as coping with evil, suffering, war, death, values, power, sacrifice, ritual, communication, gender, honour, injustice, knowledge, fate, freedom. Each chapter represents one cluster of tragic issues that are explored in terms of their particular (Greek, English, Indian) settings before being compared cross-culturally. In the end, the underlying question is: are Indian views of the human condition very different from Western views?
The Symbolist Home and the Tragic Home
Title | The Symbolist Home and the Tragic Home PDF eBook |
Author | Richard E. Goodkin |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1984-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9027217238 |
Tragedy as Symbolism It is the symbolic nature of Oedipus' quest which most centrally links the notions of Tragedy and Symbolism in the Oedipus Tyrannus, and that under the aegis of the concepts of home and homing.
Tragedy and the Tragic in German Literature, Art, and Thought
Title | Tragedy and the Tragic in German Literature, Art, and Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen D. Dowden |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1571135855 |
Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history.
The tragic consequences of teaching Hindi in Australia!
Title | The tragic consequences of teaching Hindi in Australia! PDF eBook |
Author | VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS |
Publisher | VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS |
Pages | 163 |
Release | |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
This book can be downloaded as a PDF file from here. Hindi in Australia
A Tragic Idyl
Title | A Tragic Idyl PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bourget |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2023-09-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368933213 |
Reproduction of the original.