Genre Transgressions

This collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st century.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

List of Figures*Acknowledgments
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 ZUPAN I

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