Greek fragments in postmodern frames : rewriting tragedy 1970-2005 /

• Main Author: Ioannidou, Eleftheria (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Edition: First edition.
• Series: Classical presences
• Subjects: Ελληνικό δράμα (Τραγωδία) > Θεατρικές προσαρμογές.; Μεταμοντερνισμός (Λογοτεχνία); Τραγωδία > Ιστορία και κριτική

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 adaptatio...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: tragic (trans)formations: Greek tragedy and postmodernism
• Tragedy and modern critical debate
• Viewing through the frame of tragedy
• Tragic absences and metatheatrical performances
• From author-God to textual communication
• Textual fragments and sexual politics
• Conclusion.