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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 centered 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 my
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- Author
- Michael Gamer, Diego Saglia (eds.)
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350155077
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Arts
Other editions & translations
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire (The Cultural Histories Series) (2021)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment (The Cultural Histories Series) (2021)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity 1 (2020)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age 3 (2020)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages 2 (2021)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages, Volume 2 (2020)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity (The Cultural Histories Series) (2021)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages (The Cultural Histories Series) (2021)
- A cultural history of tragedy. Volume 3, a cultural history of tragedy in the early modern age (2021)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4 (2020)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age Volume 6 (2020)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age Volume 3 (2020)
- A cultural history of tragedy Volume 2, A cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages (2021)
- A cultural history of tragedy in the age of empire / Volume 5 (2020)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age 6 (2020)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment 4 (2020)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age (The Cultural Histories Series) (2021)
- A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity Volume 1 (2020)
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