The book moves in a nonreductive way between literary and theological criticism to show how drama and religious thought discern the experience of evil. "Tragic method" refers to how tragic art functions as inquiry; "tragic theology" refers to how drama and theology render in thematic or symbolic form certain irreducible dimensions of evil and negativity. Bouchard defines no single tragic method or any single view of evil but searches for the distinctive interplay of tragic method of theology in each dramatist.
The work opens by scrutinizing certain important interpretations of Greek...
The book moves in a nonreductive way between literary and theological criticism to show how drama and religious thought discern the experience of e...
Four decades ago Tom F. Driver brought theater into discussion with religion and modern theology. It has been a rich ongoing dialogue, but one that now demands a bold new engagement. In Theater and Integrity, Larry D. Bouchard argues that while the "antitheatrical prejudice" regards theater as epitomizing the absence of integrity, theater's ways of being realized in ensembles, texts, and performances allow us to reenvision integrity's emergence and ephemeral presence.
Four decades ago Tom F. Driver brought theater into discussion with religion and modern theology. It has been a rich ongoing dialogue, but one that no...
Four decades ago Tom F. Driver brought theater into discussion with religion and modern theology. It has been a rich ongoing dialogue, but one that now demands a bold new engagement. In "Theater and Integrity," Larry D. Bouchard argues that while the antitheatrical prejudice regards theater as epitomizing the absence of integrity, theater s ways of being realized in ensembles, texts, and performances allow us to reenvision integrity s emergence and ephemeral presence. This book follows such questions across theatrical, philosophical, and theological studies of moral, personal, bodily, and...
Four decades ago Tom F. Driver brought theater into discussion with religion and modern theology. It has been a rich ongoing dialogue, but one that no...
