The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of AmbivalencePennsylvania State University Press, 1985 - 183 Seiten Here is presented a new theory of the origins of tragedy, based on its perceived kinship with mourning ritual. Mourners and tragic protagonists alike journey through dangerous transitional states, confront the uncanny, express themselves in antithetical style, and, above all, enact their ambivalence toward their beloved dead. Elements common to both tragedy and mourning ritual are first identified in actual Chinese, African, and Greek funerary rites and then analyzed in tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen, O'Neill, Miller, Beckett, and Ionesco. Included is a firsthand account of exploration of the tragedy-mourning link in the rehearsal process of the great experimental theater director, Joseph Chaikin. Opening her first chapter, Dr. Cole says, "The grave is the birthplace of tragic drama and ghosts are its procreators. For tragedy is the performance of ambivalence which ghosts emblematize: what we fear in particular--the revenant, the ghost returning to haunt us--is also what we desire--the extending of life beyond the moment of death." |
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... experience of death , though it may be universal , is inevitably solitary . The central shareable experience of death is the enactment of mourning . In suggesting that this profound communal experience re- sides at the heart of tragedy ...
... experience , and re - experience , what it is like to be a mourner without being personally at risk from the " danger " that attends transi- tional states . The tragic actor , through his enactment of the liminality as- sociated with ...
... experienced , vision . Edgar is , finally , a mourner who has survived his mourning ( unlike Gloucester , Lear , Kent ) : a mourner who has , in fact , been brought fully alive by the experience of mourning . In the plays of Samuel ...
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Aeschyluss The Persians | 29 |
Racines Phèdre | 61 |
Ibsens Ghosts | 75 |
Urheberrecht | |
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The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of Ambivalence Susan L. Cole Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2010 |
The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of Ambivalence Susan L. Cole Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1991 |
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