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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
William Storm |
| ISBN: | 0801434572 9780801434570 |
| OCLC Number: | 37902372 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 186 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The Character of Dionysus -- 2. Tragedy, Tragic, Vision -- 3. On the Status of Vision -- 4. The Situation of the Tragic -- 5. The Tragic Field -- 6. The Case of Agamemnon -- 7. Invocations of the Tragic in King Lear -- 8. Tragic "Nonentity" in The Seagull -- Afterword: The Face of the Tragic. |
| Responsibility: | William Storm. |
Abstract:
William Storm reinterprets the concept of the tragic as both a fundamental human condition and an aesthetic process in dramatic art. He proposes an original theoretical relation between a generative and consistent tragic ground and complex characterization patterns. For Storm, it is the dismemberment of character, not the death, that is the signature mark of tragic drama. Basing his theory in the sparagmos, the dismembering rite associated with Dionysus, Storm identifies a rending tendency that transcends the ancient Greek setting and can be recognized transhistorically.
The dramatic character in any era who suffers the tragic fate must do so in the manner of the ancient god of theater: the depicted self is torn apart, figuratively if not literally, psychologically if not physically.
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