Jennifer Wallace

Tragedy Since 9/11 (eBook, PDF)

Reading a World out of Joint

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century and argues that a knowledge of tragedy from the works of Sophocles to Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett can help us understand them. Jennifer Wallace offers a cultural analysis of the tragic events of the past two decades with reference to a litany of key dramatic texts, including Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Hecuba, Iphigenia in Aulis, Trojan Women and Bacchae, Homer's Iliad, Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean and Enemy of the People, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth and King Lear, among others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350035645
• Artikelnr.: 57396576

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Wallace is Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK, author of Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World Out of Joint (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and editor of A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Her previous books include Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination (2004) and The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures 1 Tragic Events and the Idea of Tragedy 2 Lamenting 9/11 3
The Dogs of War 4 Shooting Conflict 5 The Year of Revolutions 6 Claiming
Asylum 7 Hamartia in the Anthropocene Coda: Figuring Tragedy Notes
Acknowledgements Index