Choral Mediations In Greek Tragedy

Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033284
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy written by Renaud Gagné and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how the choruses of Ancient Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes.

Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107059511
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy written by Renaud Gagné and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning.

Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107054875
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy written by Renaud Gagné and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes.

Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009033883
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Tragedy written by Claude Calame and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Aristotle opened the discussion on the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, theories of the chorus have continued to proliferate and provoke debate to this day. The tragic chorus had its own story to tell; it was a collective identity, speaking within and to a collective citizen body, acting as an instrument through which stories of other times and places were dramatized into resonant heroic narratives for contemporary Athens. By including detailed case studies of three different tragedies (one each by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles), Claude Calame's seminal study not only re-examines the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, but pushes beyond this to argue for the 'polyphony' of choral performance. Here, he explores the fundamentally choral nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which tragedy was performed.

Author : Eirene Visvardi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004285571
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotion in Action: Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus written by Eirene Visvardi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotion in Action: Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus offers a new approach to the tragic chorus by examining how certain choruses ‘act’ on their shared feelings. Eirene Visvardi redefines choral action, analyzes choruses that enact fear and pity, and juxtaposes them to the Athenian dêmos in Thucydides’ History. Considered together, these texts undermine the sharp divide between emotion and reason and address a preoccupation that emerges as central in Athenian life: how to channel the motivational power of collective emotion into judicious action and render it conducive to cohesion and collective prosperity. Through their performance of emotion, tragic choruses raise the question of which collective voices deserve a hearing in the institutions of the polis and suggest diverse ways to envision passionate judgment and action.

Author : U. S. Dhuga
Publisher : Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
ISBN 13 : 9780739147306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy written by U. S. Dhuga and published by Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy challenges the commonly held view that choruses are marginalized by the roles they play in classical Athenian tragedy. Focusing on those tragedies that feature a chorus representing old men who are elders of the community where the action is taking place, Dhuga argues that these elders, as elders, are not necessarily marginal and can even become in some ways central to the represented action.

Author : Pearl Cleveland Wilson
Publisher : Columbia University Studies in Classical Philology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wagner's Dramas and Greek Tragedy written by Pearl Cleveland Wilson and published by Columbia University Studies in Classical Philology. This book was released on 1919 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosa Andújar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110573997
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paths of Song written by Rosa Andújar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy analyzes the multiple and varied evocations of choral lyric in fifth-century Greek tragedy using a variety of methodological approaches that illustrate the myriad forms through which lyric is present and can be presented in tragedy. This collection focuses on different types of interaction of Greek tragedy with lyric poetry in fifth-century Athens: generic, mythological, cultural, musical, and performative. The collected essays demonstrate the dynamic and nuanced relationship between lyric poetry and tragedy within the larger frame of Athenian song- and performance-culture, and reveal a vibrant and symbiotic co-existence between tragedy and lyric. Paths of Song illustrates the effects that this dynamic engagement with lyric possibly had on tragic performances, including performances of satyr drama, as well as on processes of survival and reputation, selection and refiguration, tradition and innovation. The volume is of particular interest to scholars in the field of classics, cultural studies, and the performing arts, as well as to readers interested in poetic transmission and in cultural evolution in antiquity.

Author : J. T. Sheppard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107622220
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by J. T. Sheppard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1911 account of the origins and characteristics of Greek tragedies, discussing the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107039800
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece written by Renaud Gagné and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the trajectories of a key idea of ancient Greek culture through three thousand years of literature and reception.