Tragedy as philosophy in the Reformation world /

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Author / Creator:	Leo, Russ, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xiv, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Tragic, The. Tragic, The, in literature. Reformation. Literature, Modern -- 15th and 16th centuries -- History and criticism. Literature, Modern -- 17th century -- History and criticism. Literature, Modern. Reformation. Tragic, The. Tragic, The, in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11980408

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ISBN:	0198834217 9780198834212
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-288) and index.
Summary:	"Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World' examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, theologians, and humanist critics turned to tragedy to understand providence and agencies human and divine in the crucible of the Reformation. Rejecting familiar assumptions about tragedy, vital figures like Philipp Melanchthon, David Pareus, Lodovico Castelvetro, John Rainolds, and Daniel Heinsius developed distinctly philosophical ideas of tragedy, irreducible to drama or performance, inextricable from rhetoric, dialectic, and metaphysics. In its proximity to philosophy, tragedy afforded careful readers crucial insight into causality, probability, necessity, and the terms of human affect and action. With these resources at hand, poets and critics produced aseries of daring and influential theses on tragedy between the 1550s and the 1630s, all directly related to pressing Reformation debates concerning providence, predestination, faith, and devotional practice. Under the influence of Aristotle's Poetics, they presented tragedy as an exacting forensic tool, enabling attentive readers to apprehend totality. And while some poets employed tragedy to render sacred history palpable with new energy and urgency, others marshalled a precise philosophicalnotion of tragedy directly against spectacle and stage-playing, endorsing anti-theatrical theses on tragedy inflected by the antique Poetics. In other words, this work illustrates the degree to which some of the influential poets and critics in the period, emphasized philosophical precision at the0expense of-even to the exclusion of-dramatic presentation."--

Table of Contents:

Introduction [Prologus]
Introduction: Tragedy's Intellectual Resources
Reformation and Tragedy, c.1550
Erasmus and the Resources of Tragedy
Quid hac imagine lugubrius cogitari potest?: Melanchthon on Tragedy
Tragoedia Sacra
A Philosophical Poetics
Dramatis Personae
I. (Protasis). Tragedy and Theology
1. Reformation Tragedy and Revelation: David Pareus' Tragic Typology
David Pareus, Origen, and Genre
Tragic Structure and Recognition in Pammachius and the Tragedia
Christus Triumphans and the Tragedy of Antichrist
"The Tragic Form of Each Vision"
Tragic Repetition
Typology as Prophecy
2. Lodovico Castelvetro's Heterodox Poetics: Tragic Accommodation
Heresy in Modena
Castelvetro's Condemnation
The Heterodoxy of the Poetica
Tragic Form in the Poetica
Tragedy and Accommodation
3. John Rainolds, Hamlet, and the Anti-Theatrical Aristotle
Species of Fiction: "Theater-sights & Stage-playes" and Mendacia officiosa
Rainolds and Oxford Aristotelianism
Spectacle and Recitation
Enter Reynaldo, Mendax
"The play's the thing"
II. [Epitasis]. Tragedy and the Limits of Philosophy
4. Necessity, Between Tragedy and Predestination: Daniel Heinsius and De Tragoediae Constitutione (1611)
The Arminian Controversy as Tragedy
Heinsius' Philosophical Deity
Tragedy as Philosophy
Plot, Spectacle, and Stage Machinery
Tragedy Not Mysterious
5. Greek Tragedy and Hebrew Antiquity in John Milton's 1671 Poems
A Tragic Paul: I Corinthians 15:33 and Textual Scholarship c.1671
Faith, Study and Greek Erudition
Hebrew Antiquity in Paradise Regain'd
Tragedy, "Ill imitated"
Katharsis before Aristotle
Lustratio as Understanding Achieved by Trial
Conclusion [Catastrophe]
Conclusion: Samson Agonistes and the Limits of Tragedy
Bibliography
Index

Tragedy as philosophy in the Reformation world /

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