Tragedy is the art-form created to confront the most difficult experiences we face: death, loss, injustice, thwarted passion, despair. From ancient Greek theatre up to the most recent plays, playwrights have found, in tragic drama, a means to seek explanation for disaster. But tragedy is also a word we continually encounter in the media, to denote an event which is simply devastating in its emotional power. This introduction explores the relationship between tragic experience and tragic representation. After giving an overview of the tragic theatre canon - including chapters on the Greeks, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, post-colonial drama, and Beckett - it also looks at the contribution which philosophers have brought to this subject, before ranging across other art-forms and areas of debate. The book is unique in its chronological range, and brings a wide spectrum of examples, from both literature and life, into the discussion of this emotional and frequently controversial subject.

The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Wallace, Jennifer

Humor & Entertainment

Cambridge University Press

When Jennifer Wallace travelled round Greece as a student, hiking through olive groves to hunt out the stones of old temples and lost cities, she became fascinated by archaeology. It was magical. It was absurd. Give an archaeologist a few rocks and, like a master storyteller, he could bring another world to life. Give him a vague hunch about the past, and he was prepared to spend hours raking through the soil in search of proof. From the plain of Troy to the Titanic, and from Britain's Stonehenge to Ground Zero in New York, Digging the Dirt explores the excavation sites that have exerted the strongest pull on the public imagination. Some sites, in which bones are indistinguishable from dust, have driven archaeologists to despair. Other sites haunt poets with memories of loss and romance. All reveal the relevance of archaeology to our deepest cultural anxieties. Passionate and intelligent, Digging the Dirt engages with the work of philosophers and writers who have been stirred by the life below the ground, while never losing sight of the pressing demands of archaeologists today. In a world of postmodern spin, Wallace calls for a renewed sense of the poetics of depth and shows how ex

Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Bristol Classical Press

Designed For Purpose: Woman, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made…

Religion & Spirituality

NOBRICH

From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century and argues that a knowledge of tragedy from the works of Sophocles to Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett can help us understand them. Jennifer Wallace offers a cultural analysis of the tragic events of the past two decades with reference to a litany of key dramatic texts, including Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Hecuba, Iphigenia in Aulis, Trojan Women and Bacchae, Homer's Iliad, Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean and Enemy of the People, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth and King Lear, among others.

Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World out of Joint

Bloomsbury Academic

“Choosing Your Angle of Defense” ...is a revolutionary and simple way to defend and position yourself without second guessing your angle of defense. In other words, if you can get to the optimum tactical position while protecting properly, it makes NO difference what type of strike or kick an attacker throws at you. People tend to hyper-focus or attempt to anticipate or “guess” which hand or foot technique an assailant might deploy. This causes problems with reaction times, as well as other issues, when the attacker doesn’t do what was expected. This often causes the defender to “freeze up” and delays his or her reaction time. This ICATT (Immediate Combative Assault Techniques &amp; Tactics)system of movement teaches you to focus on the angle of defense and not worry about the assailant’s attack. Why? Because if you move and protect properly, and place yourself effectively, it will not matter what strikes your opponent throws. Learn to effectively position yourself in the best place for defending, controlling, taking down and/or handcuffing an assailant without worrying about what strike he will use and from which side. You will “choose your angle of defense” based on surrounding conditions, instead of waiting for your opponent’s strike to determine how you might move. Chief Instructor Wallace has over 15 years of experience in combative street defense tactics and has evolved the ICATT System to simplify the angles of defense and attack to your advantage. If you can master the concepts contained in these pages, all defensive and counter movements become easier.

Tactical Striking Defense, Controlled Take Downs: "Choosing Your Angle of Defense": Tactical Striking Defense, Controlled Take Downs: "Choosing Your Angle of Defense"

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Rooted in the grit of urban Baltimore and the forests of rural Massachusetts, these poems remind us that life’s tensions and polarities are energies we carry within ourselves. These are poems of witness and commentary, conversation and meditation. They offer moments of close looking, and of looking away; of loving, and of bungled attempts to be more loving. They call us to look long and hard— and generously —at our lives. Written with radiant honesty and fierce tenderness, they suggest a path of inner discovery where mystery awaits us in the ordinary.

Almost Entirely: Poems (Paraclete Poetry)

Poetry

Paraclete Press

Raising the Sparks, Jennifer Wallace's sixth poetry collection, is inspired by the alignment of Christian and Judaic traditions. The idea of raising the sparks,&nbsp;tikkun olam, comes from 16th&nbsp;century mystical Judaism--the belief that, if people worked to "gather or raise the sparks" from the sacred vessels that shattered at the moment of creation, a repair of the world from its initial splitting would be complete. It is the duty of each one of us to raise the sparks from wherever they are imprisoned and to elevate them to holiness. Also informing this work is the Jesuit idea of finding God in all things and conversing (without clerical intervention) directly with Jesus. The poems in this collection engage with these theological traditions by witnessing the human joys and challenges of attending to their mandates.

Raising the Sparks

Iron Pen

Important reforms are taking place in children's services in the UK, with a move towards greater integration. In England, Scotland and Sweden, early childhood education and care, childcare for older children, and schools are now the responsibility of education departments. This book is the first to examine this major shift in policy.

A new deal for children?: Re-forming education and care in England, Scotland and Sweden

Politics & Social Sciences

Moss, Peter

Cohen, Bronwen

Petrie,Pat

Social Sciences

Policy Press

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