Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Film
Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Film

Author: Sezen Kayhan

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-10-16

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1443869120

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Despite the theories about the “death of tragedy”, this book explores fragments and reflections of tragedy in postmodern film. Tragedy has changed and evolved with human society, and its continuous chain from Ancient Greece to modern times has been broken by postmodernism. However, certain aspects of tragedy have continued to be used by literature and film: in particular, films with themes of chaos, violence, popular culture, paranoia, virtual reality and alienation often use aspects of tragedy. The focus of this study is on these facets adopted by postmodern film.

Lost Dramas of Classical Athens
Lost Dramas of Classical Athens

Author: Fiona McHardy

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Discussing the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, this title examines the genre and the society that it produced such works. Papyrus finds over the last 100 years have altered and supplemented our understanding of the Greek culture of this time, and this title reflects research to this point.

Fragments
Fragments

Author: Euripides

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13:

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Lost works by ancient Greece's third great tragedian. Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BC survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient quotations and references and from numerous papyri discovered since 1880. No more than one-fifth of any play is represented, but many can be reconstructed with some accuracy in outline, and many of the fragments are striking in themselves. The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians. This edition, in a projected two volumes, offers the first complete English translation of the fragments together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. The texts are based on the recent comprehensive edition of R. Kannicht. A general Introduction discusses the evidence for the lost plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.

Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama
Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama

Author: Anna A. Lamari

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-08-10

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 311062219X

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This volume examines whether dramatic fragments should be approached as parts of a greater whole or as self-contained entities. It comprises contributions by a broad spectrum of international scholars: by young researchers working on fragmentary drama as well as by well-known experts in this field. The volume explores another kind of fragmentation that seems already to have been embraced by the ancient dramatists: quotations extracted from their context and immersed in a new whole, in which they work both as cohesive unities and detachable entities. Sections of poetic works circulated in antiquity not only as parts of a whole, but also independently, i.e. as component fractions, rather like quotations on facebook today. Fragmentation can thus be seen operating on the level of dissociation, but also on the level of cohesion. The volume investigates interpretive possibilities, quotation contexts, production and reception stages of fragmentary texts, looking into the ways dramatic fragments can either increase the depth of fragmentation or strengthen the intensity of cohesion.

Fragments
Fragments

Author: David Tracy

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2020-04-06

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 022656729X

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David Tracy is widely considered one of the most important religious thinkers in North America, known for his pluralistic vision and disciplinary breadth. His first book in more than twenty years reflects Tracy’s range and erudition, collecting essays from the 1980s to 2018 into a two-volume work that will be greeted with joy by his admirers and praise from new readers. In the first volume, Fragments, Tracy gathers his most important essays on broad theological questions, beginning with the problem of suffering across Greek tragedy, Christianity, and Buddhism. The volume goes on to address the Infinite, and the many attempts to categorize and name it by Plato, Aristotle, Rilke, Heidegger, and others. In the remaining essays, he reflects on questions of the invisible, contemplation, hermeneutics, and public theology. Throughout, Tracy evokes the potential of fragments (understood both as concepts and events) to shatter closed systems and open us to difference and Infinity. Covering science, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and non-Western religious traditions, Tracy provides in Fragments a guide for any open reader to rethink our fragmenting contemporary culture.

The Play of Texts and Fragments
The Play of Texts and Fragments

Author: J. Robert C. Cousland

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 595

ISBN-13: 9004174737

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This volume is arguably one of the most important studies of Euripides to appear in the last decade. Not only does it offer incisive examinations of many of Euripides' extant plays and their influence, it also includes seminal examinations of a number of Euripides fragmentary plays. This approach represents a novel and exciting development in Euripidean studies, since it is only very recently that the fragmentary plays have begun to appear in reliable and readily accessible editions. The book s thirty-two contributors constitute an international "who s who" of Euripidean studies and Athenian drama, and their contributions will certainly feature in the forefront of scholarly discourse on Euripides and Greek drama for years to come.

The Tracey Fragments
The Tracey Fragments

Author: Maureen Medved

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0887847684

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Tracey Berkowitz rides a bus looking for her lost ten-year-old brother as she thinks about her dysfunctional parents and the schoolmates who treat her with scorn, as she escapes into a fantasy about an imaginary boyfriend who will rescue her.