Search results for "Tragedy"
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La tragedia española del Siglo de Oro en su contexto europeo: el canon trágico en Francia e Inglaterra
2017
Tragedy was born in Greece and was subsequently claimed and defended in Europe during the Renaissance and Baroque but, this being a gender as orthodox as changeable, it will be necessary to resort to a new reading of its components in order to adapt them to the reality of the Golden Age. Humanism promotes this recovery of the classical world and generates a significant literature on drama precepts that will not develop the same way in all European countries. While Italy and France opt for the acceptance and conversion of the ideas of Aristotle and Horace into style rules, Spain and England cannot fail to point out the dramatic dissonance between stage theory and practice, and, the aim of pl…
On Thinking the Tragic with Adorno
2016
This article seeks to provide a template for understanding the tragic dimension of Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophy through a reading of his early collaborative work with Max Horkheimer, the Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). While Adorno’s view has often been considered to be tragic, little has been done to reconstruct the tragic dimension of his thought. I argue that the view of the human condition, presented in the Dialectic of Enlightenment, is founded on metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical convictions that have structural similarities with the positions held by theorists and philosophers of tragedy and the tragic. Since traces of these tragic elements can be found throughout Adorn…
Sappho in Lyric IV: Michael Field’s Spatial Poetics of Desire and Defeat
2021
espanolEn este articulo proponemos una lectura exhaustiva de Long Ago (1889) de Michael Field, centrandonos concretamente en el poema IV, con el objetivo primordial de demostrar como Katharine Bradley y su sobrina Edith Cooper se apropian de la figura arcaica de Safo, dramatizan su tragedia romantica ovidiana y, al mismo tiempo, reconceptualizan la categoria nocional de espacio de dos formas complementarias: por un lado, el espacio lirico deviene en todo un topos de tension entre la forma-como-esperanza y el contenido-como-desesperanza, y por otro, la correlacion que se entabla entre espacio, naturaleza y genero culmina en una topografia transgresora en la que, segun colegimos, surge una nu…
Die Verwandlung der senecanischen Tragödie in Marc-Antoine Murets “Julius Caesar” und Jacques Grévins “César”
1994
In 1547 Marc-Antoine Muret wroteJulius Caesar, the first tragedy by a French author with an exclusively historical plot. While imitating the dramatic structure of Seneca's tragedies, he fundamentally changed the nature of the tragic conflict, transferring it from the character of the tragic hero to the clash of two basically positive principles, monarchy and Republican liberty. Muret's Caesar does not plan a revengeful crime as the Senecan heroes did; he is rather the successful statesman, ready to die after having won the victory over the entire world, and his apotheosis is soon fulfilled by the gods. On the other side are the Republican heroes Brutus and Cassius who succeed in killing the…
Entre la realidad y la ficción, la razón y la locura: el drama coral como terapia individual y social
2017
Desde la función política de la tragedia griega, las diferentes formas dramáticas occidentales han asumido de manera más o menos explícita unas funciones del espectáculo dramático que integran bajo distintas acepciones la pretendida kátharsis aristotélica, en ocasiones para rechazarla y evitarla, que incluso van más allá del prodesse et delectare horaciano, tendiendo hacia una función terapéutica individual y social en unas formas dramáticas de elevado trasfondo coral en las que los límites entre realidad y ficción, entre cordura y locura se difuminan hasta llegar a confundirse, en las que la llamada “cuarta pared” deja de existir. El objeto de este trabajo es realizar un breve recorrido po…
Privilege or tragedy? : Educators’ accounts of flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care
2017
This article explores accounts given by Finnish educators ( n = 31) on the topic of flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (i.e. childcare provided during non-standard as well as standard hours). Previous research has shown this to be a sensitive topic because of the contradiction between what is deemed in the interests of children and the fact of providing childcare during non-standard hours. The research follows the principles of discursive psychology. Educators’ accounts were labelled as excusing, compensating, normalising and justifying. Accounts categorised as excusing and compensating shared concern over the effects of childcare during non-standard hours on children’s w…
Vindicating Pablo Avecilla’s Spanish ‘Imitation’ of Hamlet (1856)
2012
This essay examines Pablo Avecilla’s Hamlet, an ‘imitation’ of Shakespeare’s tragedy of the prince of Denmark published in 1856, both in its own terms and in the historical context of its publication. This Shakespearean adaptation has been negatively judged as preposterous and unworthy of comment, but it deserves to be approached as what it claimed to be, a free handling of the Shakespearean model, and as responding to its own cultural moment. Avecilla turns the Shakespearean sacrificial prince into a righteous sovereign that has kept the love of a lower-ranked lady and, by pursuing revenge, has successfully overthrown a dishonourable and corrupt ruler. This re-focusing of the Shakespearean…
La fides e la fraus: i doni del tiranno nel Thyestes di Seneca
2019
Nel Thyestes, Seneca riscrive la pratica del dono (536, 984) come strumento della vendetta del tiranno, che ne sfrutta il potere di attrazione. Combinando la categoria della fides con il meccanismo della fraus, Atreo intende mettere in scena un inganno in grado di soddisfare le “inique aspettative” (spes improba, 295) di Tieste, che spera di ottenere il regno (regna nunc sperat mea, 289), e fornirgli una garanzia tangibile di pace (fides pacis, 294). Una tale dinamica prende la forma di un “dono simulato”, una pratica di reciprocità in cui Atreo svolge il ruolo del donatore (dans) e Tieste è indotto ad assumere quello del destinatario (accipiens). Il tiranno lo rappresenta come un modo per …
E. Rh. 686 ἀλλὰ: una cuestión sintáctica
2012
La adición de en E. Rh. 686, propuesta por Dindorf y adoptada por Diggle, ofrece una interpretación más coherente de este verso no solo en términos sintácticos sino también con respecto a la acción dramática y teatral. The addition of in E. Rh. 686 proposed by Dindorf and adopted by Diggle offers a more coherent interpretation of this line not only in syntactics terms but also in respect of the dramatic and theatrical action.
Huomioita aikamme traagisuudesta
2018
Kaikkien kanonisoitujen filosofioiden taustalla vaikuttaa ajattelijoiden ainutlaatuinen näkemys niin maailmasta ja ihmisestä kuin näiden välisestä suhteesta. Argumenttien lisäksi, ja monesti niiden sijaan, meitä puhuttelevat juuri näkemykset, jotka vetoavat omiin kokemuksiimme ja näkemyksiimme ihmisinä. Tästä syystä erilaisten kriisien värittäminä aikakausina esiin nousevat usein kirjoittajat, joiden näkemystä voidaan kutsua traagiseksi. nonPeerReviewed