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Emotion in Action : Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Choral Emotions and Collective Passions: Questions and Approaches, Old and New -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminaries: Assumptions and Questions -- 3 Aristotle and the (Tragic) Emotions: Uses and Limitations -- 4 Collectively Dancing the Emotions -- 4.1 The Tra...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
: BRILL
, 2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, Supplements Ser
v.377 |
| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=1921035 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Emotion in Action : Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Choral Emotions and Collective Passions: Questions and Approaches, Old and New -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminaries: Assumptions and Questions -- 3 Aristotle and the (Tragic) Emotions: Uses and Limitations -- 4 Collectively Dancing the Emotions -- 4.1 The Tragic Chorus -- 4.2 Rethinking Choral Action(s) -- 4.3 On Methodology -- 5 Collective Emotion Outside the Theater: Thucydides' History -- 6 Civilizing the Passions? Theorizing Emotion in Action -- Chapter 2 Contextualizing Choral Emotions: Thucydides and Collective Psychology -- 1 Preliminaries: 'Feeling Together' in Thucydides -- 2 Collective Emotion within the City-State -- 2.1 Ideal Emotion in Athenian Democracy: The Citizen-Lover -- 2.2 Unideal Emotions within the State: The Plague -- 2.3 Pericles and the Emotions of the Dêmos: Phobos, Orgê, and Gnômê -- 2.4 The Emotions of Stasis: The Oligarchic Coup in Athens -- 2.5 The Quintessential Emotions of Stasis: Corcyra -- 2.6 Reason, Passion, and Human Nature -- 3 Collective Emotion and Interstate Relations -- 3.1 The Case of Mytilene -- 3.2 The Sicilian Expedition -- 4 Closing Thoughts: Collective Emotion-Potential and Shortcomings -- Chapter 3 Emotion in Aeschylus' Active Choruses -- 1 Defining Active Choruses -- 2 Aeschylus, Eumenides -- 3 Aeschylus, Supplices -- 4 Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes -- Chapter 4 Enacting Choral Emotion: Sophocles and Euripides -- 1 Defining Enactment -- 2 Sophocles, Philoctetes -- 3 Euripides, Bacchae -- Coda: The Value(s) of Collective Emotion in Action -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Sources. Emotion in Action offers a new approach to the tragic chorus by focusing on the performance of collective emotion. Eirene Visvardi redefines choral action, analyzes choruses that enact fear and pity, and juxtaposes them to the Athenian dêmos in Thucydides |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (297 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004285576 |
