Machine generated contents note: "Tragedy of play", caesura and ritual. Tragic experience and aesthetic experience -- Tragedy after drama -- "Dramatic tragedy" and the core tragic motif -- Overview -- Contemporary tragedy -- 11. Theory/theatre/the tragic -- 1. Palaia diaphora -- an "old quarrel" between philosophical theory and tragedy -- Aristotelian themes: "mythos", logos, catharsis, anagnorisis -- Chorus, text, performance -- Philosophy and tragedy: a rivalry -- Plato, mimesis, the state -- anti-tragic theatre of philosophy -- Phantasia and "seeing" -- ghostly, terror, death -- Tragic experience -- Distance and dis-dance, beyond form -- Shape, artist, do not speak! -- "vegetal" hero, experience, concept -- "Stammerings in a foreign language" -- Thinking on the stage -- 2. Approaches to the tragic -- tragic mode -- tragic in everyday language and in the study of literature and theatre -- Aspects of the tragic -- Two models: conflict and transgression -- Versions of transgression -- 3. Casus Seneca: Tragedy and the hyperbole of revenge -- Hyperbole, nefas, furor -- Revenge and the tragic theatre -- "Medea fiam" -- subject as hyperbole -- 4. Theatre/experience and the tragic -- On the concept of experience -- Aspects of tragic experience -- Playacting and watching: homo spectator -- Catharsis and anagnorisis -- 5. model of Antigone -- Shaky order -- Heidegger -- Kinship and "prepolitical opposition" -- pt. II Drama and tragedy -- 6. dramatization of tragedy -- On predramatic tragedy in antiquity -- Dramatization and representation -- characteristics of dramatic theatre -- theatre of terror -- production of Othello -- Dramatic tragedy and the tragic subject -- 7. Pure dramatic tragedy: Racine -- Neoclassical theory and practice -- Racine, Lacan and the Imaginary -- 8. Tragoedia and Trauerspiel: Tragedy and mourning -- Play, tragedy, Trauerspiel -- Mourning in antiquity and modernity -- Baroque politics and theatre -- Trauerspiel and dramatic tragedy -- 9. Crises of dramatic tragedy: Schiller, Holderlin, Kleist -- Enlightenment and the tragic motif -- Schiller -- Holderlin -- Kleist -- pt. III Dramatic and postdramatic tragedy -- 10. dissolution of the dramatic: Lyric tragedy -- Maurice Maeterlinck -- Turning away from dramatic dialogue -- tragic of the everyday -- Hugo von Hofmannsthal -- William Butler Yeats -- 11. Tragedy and postdramatic theatre -- Historical avant-gardes: Artaud, Reinhardt, Brecht -- "The death of tragedy" -- Insistence on the tragic -- Death of tragedy? -- subject and the tragic -- Tragic theatre today -- "Tragedy of play", caesura and ritual.
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