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.