Rethinking Tragedy, Rita FELSKI (dir.)

Rita FELSKI [dir.], Rethinking Tragedy, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, 384 p.

Isbn (ean13) 978-0-8018-8740-6.

Recension (en espagnol) par Viviana Gastaldi (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentine) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2008.08.13

RÉSUMÉ

This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics. Seven new essays—as well as eight essays originally published in a New Literary History special issue on tragedy—address important, previously neglected areas of tragedy and postcolonial criticism.

The new material explores the tragic dimensions of popular culture, the relationship between tragedy and pity, and feminism's avoidance of the tragic, and includes an incisive history of tragic theory. Classic and cutting-edge, this collection offers a provocative, accessible, and comprehensive treatment of tragedy and tragic theory.

Contributors:

Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich

Stanley Corngold, Princeton University

Simon Critchley, University of Essex

Joshua Foa Dienstag, University of California, Los Angeles

Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University

Page duBois, University of California, San Diego

Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester

Rita Felski, University of Virginia

Simon Goldhill, Cambridge University

Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania

Michel Maffesoli, University of Paris (V)

Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago

Timothy J. Reiss, New York University

Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston

David Scott, Columbia University

George Steiner, University of Geneva

Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh


BIOGRAPHIE

Rita Felski is a professor of English and chair of comparative literature at the University of Virginia.