Tragedy Since 9/11

Reading a World out of Joint

AvJennifer Wallace

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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A 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFrom the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century and argues that a knowledge of tragedy from the works of Sophocles to Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett can help us understand them. Jennifer Wallace offers a cultural analysis of the tragic events of the past two decades with reference to a litany of key dramatic texts, including Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Euripides’ Hecuba, Iphigenia in Aulis, Trojan Women and Bacchae, Homer’s Iliad, Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean and Enemy of the People, and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Macbeth and King Lear, among others.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-05
Mått:138 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:312 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Academic
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350035621
Utmärkelser:Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2021 (UK)

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Jennifer Wallace is Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK, and editor of A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2019). Her previous books include Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination (2004) and The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy (2007).

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This rich analysis is valuable not only because it underlines the importance of a broader cultural horizon, showing the topicality of more or less “ancient” literary and philosophical resources, but also because it celebrates different evaluations of current events and historical consciousness in a remarkably original approach.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures1 Tragic Events and the Idea of Tragedy2 Lamenting 9/113 The Dogs of War4 Shooting Conflict5 The Year of Revolutions6 Claiming Asylum7 Hamartia in the AnthropoceneCoda: Figuring TragedyNotesAcknowledgementsIndex