The locus of tragedy (Brill, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references
Locus tragicus: the problem of place in Greek tragedy / David Janssens -- How to perform the polis? Tragedy as the locus of deception / Bram Van Oostveldt and Stijn Bussels -- The tragic representation of the prince: the political theology of Ernst Kantorowicz and the theatricality of absolutism / Klaas Tindemans -- Early modern Oedipus: a literary approach to Christian tragedy / Enrica Zanin -- Tragédie classique, souveraineté et droit: le cas de Britannicus (1669) de Jean Racine / Karel Vanhaesebrouck -- Modernity in Hölderlin's remarks on Oedipus and Antigone / Frans van Peperstraten -- Is the tragic always the tragic? Kierkegaard on antiquity and modernity in Shakespeare / Adam Wood -- Tragedy, community art, and Musikorgiasmus: examining the language of Nietzsche's Die geburt der tragödie / Thomas Crombez -- Nietzsche and the paradox of tragedy / Robrecht Vandemeulebroecke -- Selfhood as the locus of the tragic in Paul Ricur's Soi-même comme un autre / Arthur Cools -- The tragic is always the tragic: Kierkegaard and Lacan on a modern Antigone / Paul Vanden Berghe -- Tragic choices: fate, Oedipus, and beyond / Jens De Vleminck -- Noises off: on Ibsen / Simon Critchley -- The tragic heroism of Captain Ahab / Daniel Shaw -- The tragedy of having a lover: the crystallization of Odette and Albertine in A la Recherche du temps perdu / Rosa Slegers -- Incest and plague: tragic weapons turned against tragedy in Artaud's theatre of cruelty / Laurens De Vos -- Prometheus unbound: the rebirth of tragedy out of the spirit of technology / Jos de Mul -- Laughing matters: the unstoppable rise of the comic perspective / Johan Taels -- What should be said of tragedy today? / Dennis J. Schmidt