ISBN-13: 9780367218300 / Twarda / 2023 / 352 str.
This collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st century.
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 ProblemSimon Critchley in conversation with Ramona Mosse and Anna Street
Chapter 3. Form, Genre, History: A DialogueCaroline 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
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
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.
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