Overview

This collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st century. Focusing on the interaction between tragedy and comedy, both renowned and emerging scholarly and creative voices from philosophy, theater, literature, and cultural studies come together to engage in dialogues that reconfigure genre as social, communal, and affective. In revisiting the challenges to aesthetic categorization over the course of the 20th century, this volume proposes a shift away from the prescriptive and hierarchical reading of genre to its crucial function in shaping thought and enabling shared experience and communication. In doing so, the various essays acknowledge the diverse contexts within which genre needs to be thought afresh: media studies, rhetoric, politics, performance, and philosophy.

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Author:   Ramona Mosse ,  Anna Street
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781032224695

ISBN 10:   103222469
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   06 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of FiguresAcknowledgments List of Contributors The Transgressions of Genre: An Introduction RAMONA MOSSE AND ANNA STREET SCENE I Tragedy and Comedy as Thought 1 Crossing the Continuum: From Tragedy’s Beginnings to Comedy’s End CHRISTOPH MENKE AND ALENKA ZUPANČIČ 2 Sophistry, Rhetoric, and Philosophy’s Genre Problem SIMON CRITCHLEY IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA STREET AND RAMONA MOSSE 3 Form, Genre, History: A Dialogue CAROLINE LEVINE AND MARTIN PUCHNER 4 Of Tragic Figures and Comic Paradigms: A Set of Provocations MARK ROBSON AND NIKOLAUS MÜLLER-SCHÖLL The Necessity of a Figure MARK ROBSON The Comic Paradigm in the Experience of Modernity NIKOLAUS MÜLLER-SCHÖLL Responses SCENE 2 Dynamic Transfers Between Tragedy and Comedy 5 Laughter and the Performance of Death R. D. V. GLASGOW AND JENNIFER WALLACE 6 Much Ado about Hamlet: An Exchange of Letters LEONARDO LISI AND GREGOR MODER 7 Ludic Turns: Challenging the Tragedy/Comedy Dichotomy ALICE KOUBOVÁ AND FREDDIE ROKEM 8 Reimagining the Future: Comedy and Hope RUSSELL FORD AND H. PETER STEEVES SCENE 3 The Performative Futures of Tragedy and Comedy 9 On Iterative Returns in Tragedy and Comedy KATRIN TRÜSTEDT AND MATTHIAS DREYER The Sea-Change of Comedy: Hegelian Dialectics and Shakespearean Play KATRIN TRÜSTEDT The Blind Spots of Tragedy: Learning with Rabih Mroué How to Dance with the Dead MATTHIAS DREYER Responses 10 Tragedy and the Gender of Sacrifice: On ""The Difference Between Poetry and Rhetoric"" MISCHA TWITCHIN AND PIOTR GRUSZCZYNSKI 11 Tragedy and Beyond EDWARD BOND AND KATE KATAFIASZ Beyond the Limit: Tragedy, Society, and the Self EDWARD BOND Beyond Post-Drama KATE KATAFIASZ 12 Tragedy and Transgression: A Conversation HANS-THIES LEHMANN AND JAN FABRE 13 Of Ecstasy, Genre, and ""Form-of-Life"" KÉLINA GOTMAN AND KATJA VAGHI Index

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Ramona Mosse is the Head of Theatre at the Zurich University of the Arts. Anna Street is the Chair of the English Department and Lecturer in Theater and Performance Studies at Le Mans University in France.

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