Myth, Telos, Identity : The Tragic Schema in Greek and Shakespearean Drama / Iván Nyusztay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nyusztay, Iván, author.

Series:

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 39.

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature Series ; Volume 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Tragedy--History and criticism.

Tragedy.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Tragedies.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Editions Rodopi B.Y., [2002]

Summary:

Iván Nyusztay's Myth, Telos, Identity: The Tragic Schema in Greek and Shakespearean Drama for the first time presents a systematic comparison of Greek and Shakespearean tragedy. By thematizing the common modes of the tragic, it measures their structural regularities against corresponding philosophical and ethical reflections. The comparative theory of tragedy evolves through a constant debate with the traditional views of Aristotle, Hegel, Schelling, Paul Ricoeur, and others. An architectonic survey of plays leads to a generic distinction between pure tragedy and melodrama, and proposes a possible description of Christian tragedy. This generic differentiation is considered by means of a teleological approach to tragedy as well as from a formal perspective. The criticism of traditional notions of character stresses the relevance of dividedness and internal collision - tragic phenomena which are explored as necessary stages of self in the constitution and formation of tragic or internal alterity. This form of alterity is underpinned by a discussion of action theory and speech act theory. This book will be of interest for readers of Greek and Shakespearean drama, as well as for students of comparative literature and genre theory, classicists and philosophers, and for everyone interested in the relation between literature and philosophy.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I Modes of the Tragic in Greek Drama

II Modes of the Tragic in Shakespearean Drama

III Character and Identity

IV On the Threshold of the Tragic: The Teleological Foundations of Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy

V From Character to Self

VI Forms of Action and Passivity

VII Forms of Inaction: Speech Acts

Epilogue

Appendix: History Aside in Richard The Third: Mimesis or Poiesis?

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004458543

9004458549

OCLC:

1294374168

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004458543 DOI