rewriting tragedy 1970-2005 Ioannidou, Eleftheria creator text bibliography enk Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 2017 monographic eng

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viii, 195 p. ; 23 cm. 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 of perceiving the world. This volume focuses on the adaptation of Greek tragedy between 1970 and 2005 and explores a wide range of adaptations from a variety of different countries: the plays under discussion are characterized by an extended intertextual engagement with their prototype texts - instead of simply adapting the Greek myth, they rewrite the classical text in ways akin to the renegotiation of authorship and textuality proffered by poststructuralist thought. Eleftheria Ioannidou Greek drama (Tragedy) Adaptations History and criticism 882.0109 IOA-G 9780199664115 0199664110 160519 20171030105737.0 19100761