Revenge, agency, and identity from European drama to Asian film : agents of vengeance / by Eric Dodson-Robinson.
Eric Dodson-Robinson's Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film challenges critical readings of drama, film, and literature that downplay agency. From Attic tragedy, through Seneca and Shakespeare, and into Japanese and Korean film, the book pursues the agent of vengeance...
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Brill,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- The psychic body
- The body politic
- The dramatic corpus
- Violence, revenge, and metaphor in Aeschylus's Oresteia
- Rending others : ethical contagio in Seneca's thyestes
- Stoic intertexts : contagio and ethical agency
- Foreclosure and the Senecan logic of revenge
- Reges scaenici
- Failures of language in thomas kyd's the spanish tragedy and their relation to senecan revenge drama
- Self, state, and conscience in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet
- Self and state in Titus Andronicus
- Self and conscience : hamlet
- Karma, revenge, apocalypse : ran's violent victim-agent through Japanese and Western contexts
- Agents of the other in Chan-wook Park's the vengeance trilogy
- Body politics of Mr. Vengeance : harvesting organs
- The riddle of the Chaebol
- Park Kata Aeschylou
- Epilogue
- References
- General index.
- Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Psychic Body; 2 The Body Politic; 3 The Dramatic Corpus; Chapter 1 Violence, Revenge, and Metaphor in Aeschylus's Oresteia; Chapter 2 Rending Others: Ethical Contagio in Seneca's Thyestes; 1 Stoic Intertexts: Contagio and Ethical Agency; 2 Foreclosure and the Senecan Logic of Revenge; 3 Reges Scaenici; Chapter 3 Failures of Language in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and Their Relation to Senecan Revenge Drama; Chapter 4 Self, State, and Conscience in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet.
- 1 Self and State in Titus Andronicus2 Self and Conscience: Hamlet; Chapter 5 Karma, Revenge, Apocalypse: Ran's Violent Victim-Agent through Japanese and Western Contexts; Chapter 6 Agents of the Other in Chan-wook Park's The Vengeance Trilogy; 1 Body Politics of Mr. Vengeance: Harvesting Organs; 2 The Riddle of the Chaebol; 3 Park kata Aeschylou; Epilogue; References; Index.