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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames
Eleftheria Ioannidou
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Description for Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames
Hardback. This volume focuses on the adaptation of Greek tragedy between 1970 and 2005 in order to interrogate the relationship between tragedy and postmodernism; analysis of a range of adaptations from this period demonstrates intertextual engagements with prototype texts that have much in common with the main ideas expressed in poststructuralist thought. Series: Classical Presences. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation of Greek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings of Greek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of staged and written adaptations of Greek tragic texts in recent years, the idea still persists that tragedy is incompatible with postmodernism, with the long-standing debate over the demise of the genre in the modern era undergoing a recent resurgence with the claim that postmodernism precludes tragedy both as an aesthetic form and as a way ... Read more
Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation of Greek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings of Greek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of staged and written adaptations of Greek tragic texts in recent years, the idea still persists that tragedy is incompatible with postmodernism, with the long-standing debate over the demise of the genre in the modern era undergoing a recent resurgence with the claim that postmodernism precludes tragedy both as an aesthetic form and as a way ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Classical Presences
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199664115
SKU
V9780199664115
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About Eleftheria Ioannidou
Eleftheria Ioannidou is a Lecturer in Theatre/Performance at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She previously held a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Freie Universität, Berlin from 2010 until 2012 and a lectureship in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham from 2012 until 2016. She studied theatre in Athens and at Royal Holloway, London, and read ... Read more
Reviews for Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames
This book will be of major interest to reception and adaptation studies scholars, modern drama scholars, and postmodernists. ... Ioannidou's prose is clear and her summation of dense theoretical material is cogent enough that students in the field will find this accessible.
Phillip Zapkin, CJ-Online
Whether or not the reader has a stake in the Marxist dispute into ... Read more
Phillip Zapkin, CJ-Online
Whether or not the reader has a stake in the Marxist dispute into ... Read more