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The Mourning Voice

The Mourning Voice

Loraux, Nicole
Rawlings, Elizabeth Trapnell
Pucci, Pietro

Hardcover

Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, Book 58

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0801438306
ISBN13: 9780801438301
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: May 15 2002
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

In The Mourning Voice, Nicole Loraux presents a radical challenge to what has become the dominant view of tragedy in recent years: that tragedy is primarily a civic phenomenon, infused with Athenian political ideology, which envisions its spectators first and foremost as citizens, members of the political collective. Instead, Loraux maintains, the spectator addressed by tragedy is the individual defined primarily in terms of his or her humanity, rather than in terms of affiliation with a political group. The plays, she says, involve the spectators in the emotional expressiveness of tragic suffering, thereby creating a theatrical identity. Aroused by the experience of suffering, the audience is reminded that it is witnessing a theatrical representation of the instability of the human condition--a state that Loraux asserts tragedy is uniquely suited to convey.

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