A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire write by Michael Gamer. This book was released on 2021-05-20. A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the recognition that tragedy did not die with Romanticism, as George Steiner famously argued over half a century ago, but rather mutated and dispersed, converging into a variety of unstable, productive forms both on the stage and off. In turn, the tragic as a concept and mode transformed itself under the pressure of multiple social, historical and political-ideological phenomena. This volume therefore deploys a narrative centred on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries. The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire write by Michael Gamer. This book was released on 2021-05-20. A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the recognition that tragedy did not die with Romanticism, as George Steiner famously argued over half a century ago, but rather mutated and dispersed, converging into a variety of unstable, productive forms both on the stage and off. In turn, the tragic as a concept and mode transformed itself under the pressure of multiple social, historical and political-ideological phenomena. This volume therefore deploys a narrative centred on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries. The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age write by Jennifer Wallace. This book was released on 2021-05-20. A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book leading scholars come together to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging overview of tragedy in theatre and other media from 1920 to the present. The 20th century is often considered to have witnessed the death of tragedy as a theatrical genre, but it was marked by many tragic events and historical catastrophes, from two world wars and genocide to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the anticipation and onset of climate change. The authors in this volume wrestle with this paradox and consider the degree to which the definitions, forms and media of tragedy were transformed in the modern period and how far the tragic tradition-updated in performance-still spoke to 20th- and 21st-century challenges. While theater remains the primary focus of investigation in this strikingly illustrated book, the essays also cover tragic representation-often re-mediated, fragmented and provocatively questioned-in film, art and installation, photography, fiction and creative non-fiction, documentary reporting, political theory and activism. Since 24/7 news cycles travel fast and modern crises cross borders and are reported across the globe more swiftly than in previous centuries, this volume includes intercultural encounters, various forms of hybridity, and postcolonial tragic representations. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry
A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry write by Carolyn White. This book was released on 2022-08-31. A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine made. The revolution in making, and in consuming the things which were made, impacted on lives at every scale –from body to home to workplace to city to nation. Beyond the explosion in technology, scientific knowledge, manufacturing, trade, and museums, changes in class structure, politics, ideology, and morality all acted to transform the world of objects. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Carolyn White is Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte
A Cultural History of Tragedy
A Cultural History of Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cultural History of Tragedy write by Rebecca W. Bushnell. This book was released on 2020. A Cultural History of Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
