Genre Transgressions

ISBN-13: 9780367218300 / Twarda / 2023 / 352 str.

Opis

This collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st century.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures

Scene 1: Tragedy and Comedy as Thought

Chapter 1. Crossing the Continuum: From Tragedy’s Beginnings to Comedy’s End

Christoph Menke and Alenka Zupančič

Chapter 2. Sophistry, Rhetoric, and Philosophy’s Genre Problem
Simon Critchley in conversation with Ramona Mosse and Anna Street

Chapter 3. Form, Genre, History: A Dialogue
Caroline Levine and Martin Puchner

Chapter 4. Of Tragic Figures and Comic Paradigms: A Set of Provocations

Mark Robson and Nikolaus Müller-Schöll

The Necessity of a Figure

Mark Robson

The Comic Paradigm in the Experience of Modernity

Nikolaus Müller-Schöll

Responses

Scene 2: Dynamic Transfers Between Tragedy and Comedy

Chapter 5. Laughter and the Performance of Death

R.D.V. Glasgow and Jennifer Wallace

Chapter 6. Much Ado about Hamlet: An Exchange in Letters

Leonardo Lisi and Gregor Moder

Chapter 7. Ludic Turns: Challenging the Tragedy/Comedy Dichotomy

Alice Koubová and Freddie Rokem

Chapter 8. Reimaging the Future: Comedy and Hope

Russell Ford and H. Peter Steeves

Scene 3: The Performative Futures of Tragedy and Comedy

Chapter 9. On Iterative Returns in Tragedy and Comedy

Katrin Trüstedt and Matthias Dreyer

The Sea-Change of Comedy: Hegelian Dialectics and Shakespearean Play

Katrin Trüstedt

The Blind Spots of Tragedy: Learning from Tragedy with Rabih Mroué how to Dance with the Dead

Matthias Dreyer

Responses

　

Chapter 10. Tragedy and the Gender of Sacrifice: On ‘the Difference between Poetry and Rhetoric’

Mischa Twitchin and Piotr Gruszczynski

　

Chapter 11. Tragedy and Beyond

Edward Bond and Kate Katafiasz

Beyond the Limit: Tragedy, Society, and the Self

Edward Bond

Beyond Post-Drama

Kate Katafiasz

　

Chapter 12. Tragedy and Transgression: A Conversation

Hans-Thies Lehmann and Jan Fabre

Chapter 13. Of Ecstasy, Genre and ‘Form-of-Life’

Kélina Gotman and Katja Vaghi

Index

O autorze

　

Ramona Mosse is Head of Theatre at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Anna Street is Chair of the English Department and Lecturer in Theater and Performance Studies at Le Mans University in France.