Para uma arqueologia da ação tragica : a dramatização da tragico no teatro do tempo

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2002

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This work investigates the concept of action in tragic drama, revising a tradition originated in Ancient Greece, birthplace of tragedy, a tradition which extends itself up to the middle of the twentieth century, when representatives of the so-called "post-modem" thought defy exactly the premises upon which this dramatic tradition was built up -rationality, subjectivity and the bases of conceptual knowledge. Considering, on one hand, the contributions of these new critical trends to literary studies, on the other, the difficulties to escape the categories post-modern thinkers try to "deconstruct", this research develops through a methodological articulation based on a permanent evaluation of the concepts and ideas proposed by the theoretical tradition in the light of personal readings of " primary sources" and other - historical, literary, philosophical, anthropological, epistemological sources of information. From these negotiations a set of conceptual elements emerges as the fundamentals of tragic drama, its validity being asserted through the analysis of an interdisciplinary corpus, composed of a twentieth century drama (A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tenessee Williams) and its two filmic adaptations (one by Elia Kazan, from1951, the other by Glenn Jordan, ITom 1995). Because the play and its adaptations are situated out of the historical boundaries of the investigative trajectory which inspired the concepts and the hypotheses formulated as the fundamentals of tragic action, the verification of the permanence and validity of these concepts in the analyses of the corpus not only asserts the methodological orientation of the research, but also legitimizes the thesis which, from hypothesis to hypothesis, was built up. At the end of the work, occidental tragic drama is proclaimed as a poetical strategy of rationalization, a geme which imposes a causal logic to what is, in its limit, inexplicableand inscrutable- the tragic destiny of human beings

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drama theatre and cinema teatro grego (tragedia) tragedy tragedia dramatic action

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