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Tragedy, modernity and mourning / Olga Taxidou.
- Title
- Tragedy, modernity and mourning / Olga Taxidou.
- Author
- Taxidou, Olga.
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2004], ©2004.
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- Description
- 215 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Reassesses the Greek tragic form in relation to Athenian democracy, and to both civic and private forms of mourning.
- Subject
- Bereavement in literature
- Chagrin dans la littérature > Critique et interprétation
- Deuil dans la littérature > Critique et interprétation
- Greek drama > History and criticism
- Grief in literature
- Modernisme (Littérature) > Critique et interprétation
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Tragedies
- Tragic, The, in literature
- Tragique dans la littérature > Critique et interprétation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. The allure of Antigone or Antigone and the philosophers -- 2. Oedipus/anti-Oedipus : the philosopher, the actor and the patient -- 3. Trauerspiel, tragedy and epic -- 4. Euripides and Aristotle : friends in mourning -- 5. The heroism of Hercules and the beauty of Helen -- 6. Mourning and tragic form -- 7. Brecht - Beckett - Muller : modern tragedy and engagement
- ISBN
- 0748619879 (hbk.)
- 9780748619870 (hbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries