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Emotion in action: Thycydides and the tragic chorus' offers a new approach to the tragic chorus by examining how certain choruses 'act' on their shared feelings. Eirene Visvardi redefines choral action, analyzes choruses that enact fear and pity, and juxtaposes them to the Athenian de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Visvardi, Eirene (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 377.
Temas:
Thucydides > Criticism and interpretation.
Thucydides
Drama > Chorus (Greek drama)
Théâtre (Genre littéraire) > Chœur de théâtre grec.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Koren (letterkunde)
Grieks.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Choral Emotions and Collective Passions: Questions and Approaches, Old and New 1
  • 1 Introduction 1
  • 2 Preliminaries: Assumptions and Questions 2
  • 3 Aristotle and the (Tragic) Emotions: Uses and Limitations 6
  • 4 Collectively Dancing the Emotions 19
  • 4.1 The Tragic Chorus 19
  • 4.2 Rethinking Choral Action(s) 30
  • 4.3 On Methodology 32
  • 5 Collective Emotion Outside the Theater: Thucydides' History 34
  • 6 Civilizing the Passions? Theorizing Emotion in Action 37
  • 2 Contextualizing Choral Emotions: Thucydides and Collective Psychology 44
  • 1 Preliminaries: 'Feeling Together' in Thucydides 44
  • 2 Collective Emotion within the City-State 49
  • 2.1 Ideal Emotion in Athenian Democracy: the Citizen-Lover 49
  • 2.2 Unideal Emotions within the State: The Plague 52
  • 2.3 Pericles and the Emotions of the Demos: Phobos, Orgê, and Gnômê 56
  • 2.4 The Emotions of Stasis: The Oligarchic Coup in Athens 62
  • 2.5 The Quintessential Emotions of Stasis: Corcyra 64
  • 2.6 Reason, Passion, and Human Nature 68
  • 3 Collective Emotion and Interstate Relations 72
  • 3.1 The Case of Mytilene 73
  • 3.2 The Sicilian Expedition 84
  • 4 Closing Thoughts: Collective Emotion-Potential and Shortcomings 91
  • 3 Emotion in Aeschylus' Active Choruses 94
  • 1 Defining Active Choruses 94
  • 2 Aeschylus, Eumenides 98
  • 3 Aeschylus, Supplices 120
  • 4 Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 147
  • 4 Enacting Choral Emotion: Sophocles and Euripides 179
  • 1 Defining Enactment 179
  • 2 Sophocles, Philoctetes 180
  • 3 Euripides, Bacchae 213.

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