Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film

Agents of Vengeance

AvEric Dodson-Robinson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del 16 i serien Metaforms

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Beskrivning

Eric Dodson-Robinson’s Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film challenges critical readings of drama, film, and literature that downplay agency. From Attic tragedy, through Seneca and Shakespeare, and into Japanese and Korean film, the book pursues the agent of vengeance in her fury to reconstruct an identity shattered by trauma. Tragic revenge is an imaginary theater only partly encompassed by disciplines, institutions, and discourses. In this theater, violence becomes contagious and potentially transformative as performance gives birth to the agent of vengeance: a complex, emergent agent who is more than the sum of the actors, auteur, tradition, and audience, all of whom infiltrate, and strive to control, her will. The agent of vengeance, determined to outdo past exemplars, exacts traumatic excess, not equivalence.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-03
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:425 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Metaforms
Antal sidor:172
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004401273

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Mer om författaren

Eric Dodson-Robinson, PhD (2009), University of Illinois, is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His publications explore violence and agency in Senecan and Shakespearean tragedy and their cross-cultural receptions.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1 The Psychic Body2 The Body Politic3 The Dramatic Corpus1 Violence, Revenge, and Metaphor in Aeschylus’s Oresteia2 Rending others: Ethical Contagio in Seneca’s Thyestes1 Stoic Intertexts: Contagio and Ethical Agency2 Foreclosure and the Senecan Logic of Revenge3 Reges Scaenici3 Failures of Language in Thomas Kyd’s the Spanish Tragedy and Their Relation to Senecan Revenge Drama4 Self, State, and Conscience in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet1 Self and State in Titus Andronicus2 Self and Conscience: Hamlet5 Karma, Revenge, Apocalypse: Ran’s Violent Victim-Agent through Japanese and Western Contexts6 Agents of the Other in Chan-wook Park’s the Vengeance Trilogy1 Body Politics of Mr. Vengeance: Harvesting Organs2 The Riddle of the Chaebol3 Park kata AeschylouEpilogueReferencesGeneral Index