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Tragedy in the Age of Oprah
In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society. Accustomed to the indulgences of a celebrity-driven culture, how can modern audiences understand and interpret classic works of drama? In Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays, Louis Fantasia provides a provocative examination of the relationship between popular culture and classical tragedy. Making a persuasive argument for the lessons tragedy has to offer today’s audiences, Fantasia examines five enduring works of theatre: Euripides’ Medea, William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Jean Racine’s Phèdre, Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart, and Eugene O’N...
Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature
Classical Memories is an intervention into the field of adaptation studies, taking the example of classical reception to show that adaptation is a process that can be driven by and produce intertextual memories. I see ‘classical memories’ as a memory-driven type of adaptation that draws on and reproduces schematic and otherwise de-contextualised conceptions of antiquity and its cultural ‘exports’ in, broadly speaking, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These memory-driven adaptations differ, often in significant ways, from more traditional adaptations that seek to either continue or deconstruct a long-running tradition that can be traced back to antiquity as well as its canoni...
A cidade do vicio
"A Cidade do Vício" é uma obra escrita por Fialho de Almeida que explora as entranhas da sociedade urbana do final do século XIX em Portugal. O livro é uma narrativa densa e introspectiva, caracterizada por um estilo crítico e detalhista, onde os vícios e as mazelas das grandes cidades são expostos com precisão. Fialho utiliza uma prosa rica e repleta de simbolismos, para evocar os dilemas morais e existenciais que permeiam a vida dos protagonistas, refletindo não apenas a corrupção e a decadência, mas também a busca por redenção. O contexto literário da época, marcado pelo Realismo, proporciona um cenário propício para essa análise social e psicológica dos personagens, ...
Between Light and Storm
Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in relation to the animal kingdom, and the consequences of our belief in human superiority. She explores our representation of animals in art, our consumption of them for food, our experiments on them for science, and our willingness to slaughter them for sport and fashion, as well as examining concepts of love and ownership. Drawing on philosophy and theology, art and history, as well as her own experience of living with animals and coming to know, love and respect them as individuals, Woolfson examines some of the most complex ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals and argues passionately and persuasively for a more humble, more humane, relationship with the creatures who share our world.
