Irish Appropriation Of Greek Tragedy

Author : Brian Arkins
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781788748704
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy written by Brian Arkins and published by Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analysis of more than 30 plays written by Irish dramatists and poets that are based on the tragedies of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. These plays proceed from the time of Yeats and Synge through MacNeice and the Longfords on to many of today's leading writers.

Author : Marianne McDonald
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amid Our Troubles written by Marianne McDonald and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists of the past and present, have drawn on Greek myths and used these stories to bring new insights on the world in which we now live.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900454867X
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship (philia) is a complex and multi-faceted concept that is frequently attested in ancient Greek literature and thought. It is also an important social phenomenon and an institution that features in classical Greek social, cultural, and intellectual history. This collected volume seeks to complement the extensive modern scholarship on this topic by shedding light on complementary representations, nuances and tensions of friendship in a range of different sources, literary, epigraphic, and visual. It offers a broad overview of the contours of this important social phenomenon and helps the reader get a glimpse of its depth and richness.

Author : Salomé Paul
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003857671
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy written by Salomé Paul and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy examines the feminist transposition of Greek tragedy in the theatre of the contemporary Irish dramatist Marina Carr. Through a comparison of the plays based on classical drama with their ancient models, it investigates Carr’s transformation not only of the narrative but also of the form of Greek tragedy. As a religious and political institution of the 5th-century Athenian democracy, tragedy endorsed the sexist oppression of women. Indeed, the construction of female characters in Greek tragedy was entirely disconnected from the experience of womanhood lived by real women in order to embody the patriarchal values of Athenian democracy. Whether praised for their passivity or demonized for showing unnatural agency and subjectivity, women in Greek tragedy were conceived to (re)assert the supremacy of men. Carr’s theatre stands in stark opposition to such a purpose. Focusing on women’s struggle to achieve agency and subjectivity in a male-dominated world, her plays show the diversity of experiencing womanhood and sexist oppression in the Republic of Ireland, and the Western societies more generally. Yet, Carr’s enduring conversation with the classics in her theatre demonstrates the feminist willingness to alter the founding myths of Western civilisation to advocate for gender equality.

Author : Paschalis Nikolaou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527548716
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature written by Paschalis Nikolaou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature brings together literary experts in two traditions and some contemporary novelists writing in them: this distinctive group includes Katy Hayes, Mia Gallagher, Deirdre Madden, Paraic O’Donnell, Christos Chrissopoulos, Panos Karnezis, Sophia Nikolaidou, and Ersi Sotiropoulos. Their work is presented in context, not only through excerpts from published and unpublished fiction, but also through eight self-reflective essays that enhance our understanding of these authors’ themes and modes. All these critical texts originate from a unique gathering of scholars and creative talent held at the Ionian University, Corfu, in October 2017, predominantly exploring Greek and Irish prose writing and the relationships between them. This volume paints a more complete picture through added scenes from drama, poetry and translation, and through considerations of the history and associations of two literatures at the edges of Europe. Translation is integral to the dialogues fostered; the selected works by the Irish and Greek writers can be read in both Greek and English, a manifestation of, and a further point in, the reception of these authors beyond Greece and Ireland. The book opens with a comprehensive introductory essay by Joanna Kruczkowska, and further insights into the creative mind and aspects of publishing are provided through a roundtable with the authors recorded at the time of the festival. This material further contributes to a remarkably structured look at the business of writing and the workings of two literary systems.

Author : Betine van Zyl Smit
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118347757
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama written by Betine van Zyl Smit and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete overview of the reception of ancient drama from antiquity to the present Covers the translation, transmission, performance, production, and adaptation of Greek tragedy from the time the plays were first created in ancient Athens through the 21st century Features overviews of the history of the reception of Greek drama in most countries of the world Includes chapters covering the reception of Greek drama in modern opera and film

Author : Heike Bartel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351538187
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unbinding Medea written by Heike Bartel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medea - simply to mention her name conjures up echoes and cross-connections from Antiquity to the present. The vengeful wife, the murderess of her own children, the frail, suicidal heroine, the archetypal Bad Mother, the smitten maiden, the barbarian, the sorceress, the abused victim, the case study for a pathology. For more than two thousand years, she has arrested the eye in paintings, reverberated in opera, called to us from the stage. She demands the most interdisciplinary of study, from ancient art to contemporary law and medicine; she is no more to be bound by any single field of study than by any single take on her character. The contributors to this wide-ranging volume are Brian Arkins, Angela J. Burns, Anthony Bushell, Richard Buxton, Peter A. Campbell, Margherita Carucci, Daniela Cavallaro, Robert Cowan, Hilary Emmett, Edith Hall, Laurence D. Hurst, Ekaterini Kepetzis, Ivar Kvistad, Catherine Leglu, Yixu Lue, Edward Phillips, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Paula Straile-Costa, John Thorburn, Isabelle Torrance, Terence Stephenson, and Amy Wygant.

Author : Isabelle Torrance
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198864485
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016 written by Isabelle Torrance and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection, written by experts in their fields, addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. Topics covered include the reception and rejection of classical culture in Ireland; and the politics of Irish language engagement with Greek and Roman models.

Author : Douglas Cairns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472512146
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sophocles: Antigone written by Douglas Cairns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antigone is Sophocles' masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual traditions. This volume sets the play in the contexts of its mythical background, its performance, its relation to contemporary culture and thought, and its rich reception history. But its main aim is to encourage first-hand engagement with the complexities of interpretation that make the play so enduringly thought-provoking and rewarding. Though Creon's actions prove disastrous and Antigone's are vindicated, the Antigone is no simple study in the excesses of tyranny or the virtues of heroic resistance, but a more nuanced exploration of conflicting views of right and wrong and of the conditions that constrain human beings' efforts to control their destinies and secure their happiness. The book's chapters consider the extent of the original audience's acquaintance with earlier versions of the legends of Antigone's family, the structure of the plot as it unfolds in theatrical performance, the presentation of the characters and the motivations that drive them, the major political, social, and ethical themes that the play raises, and the resonance of those themes in the ways that the play has been interpreted, adapted, performed, and appropriated in later periods.

Author : Florence Impens
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319682318
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960 written by Florence Impens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960. Featuring detailed studies of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Eavan Boland, including close readings of key poems, it highlights the evolution of Irish poetic engagements with Greece and Rome in the last sixty years. It outlines the contours of a ‘movement’ which has transformed Irish poetry and accompanied its transition from a postcolonial to a transnational model, from sporadic borrowings of images and myths in the poets’ early attempts to define their own voices, to the multiplication of classical adaptations since the late 1980s -- at first at a time of personal and political crises, notably in Northern Ireland, and more recently, as manifestations of the poets’ engagements with European and other foreign literatures.