Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film : Agents of Vengeance /

Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film : Agents of Vengeance /

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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Main Author: Dodson-Robinson, Eric (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Metaforms 16.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004393820.

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Call Number: H41

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Introduction
  • Violence, Revenge, and Metaphor in Aeschylus's Oresteia
  • Rending Others: Ethical Contagio in Seneca's Thyestes
  • 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
  • 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
  • Epilogue
  • Back Matter
  • References
  • Index.