The Transformations of Tragedy by Jolyon Mitchell
The Transformations of Tragedy: Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern explores the influence of Christian theology and culture upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy. The volume is divided into three parts: early modern, modern, and contemporary. This series of essays by established and emergent scholars offers a sustained study of Christianity’s creative influence upon experimental forms of Western tragic drama.Both early modern and modern tragedy emerged within periods of remarkable upheaval in Church history, yet Christianity’s diverse influence upon tragedy has too often been either ignored or denounced by major tragic theorists. This book contends instead that the history of tragedy cannot be sufficiently theorised without fully registering the impact of Christianity in transition towards modernity.
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Spiritus Loci
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Inventing the Secular
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The Challenge of the Silver Screen
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In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing
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Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China
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Sacred Text -- Sacred Space
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Scorsese and Religion
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Shakespeare and religio mentis
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Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture
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Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts
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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
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The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic
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The Crescent on the Temple
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The Unheard Prayer
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Transcendence and Sensoriness
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Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse
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A Heretical History of Architecture
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Beauty, Devotion and Spirituality
"Through rich, powerfully argued case studies this collection provides proof positive of the radically informing relationship between Christianity and understandings of the tragic experience in the sixteenth century and the modern eraThe essays take a variety of approaches from the historical materialist to the philosophical and theological, but the twin images of humanity at bay, self-alienated, subject to savage violence; and humanity struggling to understand and represent its collective suffering, victimhood, and capacity for transcendence punctuate the volume, giving it a satisfying, challenging coherence." - Greg Walker, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh
Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in English Renaissance Literature at the University of Agder. She is currently completing a monograph on early modern tragedy and Reformation iconoclasm.
Erik Tonning is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen. He is the author of Modernism and Christianity (Palgrave, 2014), and co-editor of Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse (Brill, 2015) and David Jones: A Christian Modernist? (Brill, 2018).
Jolyon Mitchell is Professor specialising in Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding (with special reference to the Arts) at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include: Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence (Routledge, 2012) and Media Violence and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Contributors are: Linzy Brady, Paul S. Fiddes, Beatrice Groves, Ronan McDonald, Jolyon Mitchell, Stuart Sillars, Adrian Streete, Olga Taxidou, Erik Tonning, Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning, Peter Svare Valeur, Jennifer Wallace, Giles Waller, Rowan Williams
Erik Tonning is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen. He is the author of Modernism and Christianity (Palgrave, 2014), and co-editor of Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse (Brill, 2015) and David Jones: A Christian Modernist? (Brill, 2018).
Jolyon Mitchell is Professor specialising in Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding (with special reference to the Arts) at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include: Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence (Routledge, 2012) and Media Violence and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Contributors are: Linzy Brady, Paul S. Fiddes, Beatrice Groves, Ronan McDonald, Jolyon Mitchell, Stuart Sillars, Adrian Streete, Olga Taxidou, Erik Tonning, Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning, Peter Svare Valeur, Jennifer Wallace, Giles Waller, Rowan Williams
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004416536 |
| ISBN 10 | 9004416536 |
| Title | The Transformations of Tragedy |
| Author | Jolyon Mitchell |
| Series | Studies In Religion And The Arts |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2019-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 340 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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