Naomi Conn Liebler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Conn Liebler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi Conn |
| FAMILY NAME | Liebler |
| SIGNATURE | LIEBLER N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montclair State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Feminism and Tragedy
The proposition that tragedy is anti-feminist requires a syllogistic counter-proposition: if tragedy is anti-feminist, then feminism must perforce be anti-tragic. Ferminist critics of Renaissance tragedy who have drawn attention to the ways in which the genre of tragedy victimises its female characters have not generally been concerned with the fact that the genre also, with equal frequency and intensity. Feminist critics of classical Greek and R…
Tradition and Innovation
The American playwright, Arthur Miller, posed the question of whether in the light of modern psychiatry, tragedy was any longer possible. His own The Death of A Salesman may be read as an answer to this question, especially when we consider that Miller perceived the assertion that tragedy depended upon the noble status of the protagonist to be nothing more than &s;a clinging to the outward forms of tragedy&s;. In another essay which Miller wrote …
The Philosophy of Tragedy
Tragedy is thought to be the most closely aligned with the discipline of philosophy of all the dramatic genres. It concerns the production of knowledge and the human limits to its acquisition, and also with questions of politics, ethics and spirituality. In The Philosophy of Fine Art , Hegel perceived drama generally as having &s;to exhibit situations and the spiritual atmosphere that belongs to them as definitely motivated by the individual char…
Psychoanalysis and Tragedy
Sigmund Freud&s;s well-known account of the Oedipus complex is the starting-point for any psychoanalytical reading of tragedy. In Freudian psychoanalysis the &s;unconscious&s; replaces that Dionysiac energy which, as people saw, was for Friedrich Nietzsche the mainspring of tragic action. In Lacan, the division at the centre of subjectivity is articulated differently, and in such a way as to expose the various stages through which the infant trav…
Historical Materialism and Tragedy
With the advent of Marxism and the emphasis upon human history, including those mechanisms which are responsible for social change, what had been an essentially religious perspective upon tragedy now gradually assumed a much more secular interest. The dramatist Bertold Brecht sought to issue a challenge to the Aristotelian conception of tragedy, questioning from a historical-materialist standpoint the need for heroism as such. His concern is with…
Ritual and Tragedy
The vital rhythm of tragedy, Susanne K. Langer says, is that of self-consummation, as distinct from the &s;self-preservation&s; of the comic mode. It always turns &s;toward an absolute close&s;, its cadences of human potentiality moving to completion or fulfilment. In tragedy, however, as distinct from actual ritual, the socially dangerous collapse of necessary distinctions and its redressive violence remain immanent and continually threaten to r…
Deconstruction and Tragedy
The identification of that otherness also offers a possibility for resistance, and allows the possibility of a radical reading of tragic form. It is fitting that deconstruction, the radical questioning of the conditions under which definitions achieve their authority, should come at the end. Throughout this selection it is evident that tragedy is deeply concerned with questions of knowledge, of reality, of the ritual elements in communal life, an…
Tragedy
Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger
Joanne Rochester. Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. ix + 172 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–3080–7. - Volume 65 Issue 3
Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare's Festive World
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‘Thou bleeding piece of earth’: The Ritual Ground of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar begins at the Feast of the Lupercal, the Roman celebration on 13–15 February which later became St Valentine's day and often coincides in the Christian calendar with Mardi Gras and the Carnival season, and which, in Shakespeare's play, quickly passes into history's most famous ides of March. An earlier generation of critics explained the conflation of the festival and Caesar's assassination primarily as a 'dramatic economy', a struc…
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre
Hamlet's Hobby-Horse
L'aspect transitoire de la culture elisabethaine s'exprime dans Hamlet de Shakespeare - ou le «hobby horse» sert de signal mnemonique pour la mise en jeu d'interets demotiques complexes - par l'ambivalence entre le poids de la tradition, des operations rituelles et la manipulation des structures sociopolitiques, rappelant au public de Shakespeare une culture en mutation et risquant de se perdre
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Hamlet's Hobby-Horse
L'aspect transitoire de la culture elisabethaine s'exprime dans Hamlet de Shakespeare - ou le «hobby horse» sert de signal mnemonique pour la mise en jeu d'interets demotiques complexes - par l'ambivalence entre le poids de la tradition, des operations rituelles et la manipulation des structures sociopolitiques, rappelant au public de Shakespeare une culture en mutation et risquant de se perdre
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre
‘Thou bleeding piece of earth’: The Ritual Ground of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar begins at the Feast of the Lupercal, the Roman celebration on 13–15 February which later became St Valentine's day and often coincides in the Christian calendar with Mardi Gras and the Carnival season, and which, in Shakespeare's play, quickly passes into history's most famous ides of March. An earlier generation of critics explained the conflation of the festival and Caesar's assassination primarily as a 'dramatic economy', a struc…
Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare's Festive World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger
Joanne Rochester. Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. ix + 172 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–3080–7. - Volume 65 Issue 3
Feminism and Tragedy
The proposition that tragedy is anti-feminist requires a syllogistic counter-proposition: if tragedy is anti-feminist, then feminism must perforce be anti-tragic. Ferminist critics of Renaissance tragedy who have drawn attention to the ways in which the genre of tragedy victimises its female characters have not generally been concerned with the fact that the genre also, with equal frequency and intensity. Feminist critics of classical Greek and R…
Tradition and Innovation
The American playwright, Arthur Miller, posed the question of whether in the light of modern psychiatry, tragedy was any longer possible. His own The Death of A Salesman may be read as an answer to this question, especially when we consider that Miller perceived the assertion that tragedy depended upon the noble status of the protagonist to be nothing more than &s;a clinging to the outward forms of tragedy&s;. In another essay which Miller wrote …
The Philosophy of Tragedy
Tragedy is thought to be the most closely aligned with the discipline of philosophy of all the dramatic genres. It concerns the production of knowledge and the human limits to its acquisition, and also with questions of politics, ethics and spirituality. In The Philosophy of Fine Art , Hegel perceived drama generally as having &s;to exhibit situations and the spiritual atmosphere that belongs to them as definitely motivated by the individual char…
Psychoanalysis and Tragedy
Sigmund Freud&s;s well-known account of the Oedipus complex is the starting-point for any psychoanalytical reading of tragedy. In Freudian psychoanalysis the &s;unconscious&s; replaces that Dionysiac energy which, as people saw, was for Friedrich Nietzsche the mainspring of tragic action. In Lacan, the division at the centre of subjectivity is articulated differently, and in such a way as to expose the various stages through which the infant trav…
Historical Materialism and Tragedy
With the advent of Marxism and the emphasis upon human history, including those mechanisms which are responsible for social change, what had been an essentially religious perspective upon tragedy now gradually assumed a much more secular interest. The dramatist Bertold Brecht sought to issue a challenge to the Aristotelian conception of tragedy, questioning from a historical-materialist standpoint the need for heroism as such. His concern is with…
Ritual and Tragedy
The vital rhythm of tragedy, Susanne K. Langer says, is that of self-consummation, as distinct from the &s;self-preservation&s; of the comic mode. It always turns &s;toward an absolute close&s;, its cadences of human potentiality moving to completion or fulfilment. In tragedy, however, as distinct from actual ritual, the socially dangerous collapse of necessary distinctions and its redressive violence remain immanent and continually threaten to r…
Deconstruction and Tragedy
The identification of that otherness also offers a possibility for resistance, and allows the possibility of a radical reading of tragic form. It is fitting that deconstruction, the radical questioning of the conditions under which definitions achieve their authority, should come at the end. Throughout this selection it is evident that tragedy is deeply concerned with questions of knowledge, of reality, of the ritual elements in communal life, an…
Tragedy
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