Visions and Faces of the Tragic
The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 June 2020
- ISBN 9780198854104
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 240x160x22 mm
- Weight 600 g
- Language English 70
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Short description:
This study presses beyond the pervasive early Christian aversion to pagan theatrical art in all its forms and investigates the growing critical engagement with the genre of tragedy by Christian authors, especially in the post-Constantinian era.
MoreLong description:
Despite the pervasive early Christian repudiation of pagan theatrical art, especially prior to Constantine, this monograph demonstrates the increasing attention of late-ancient Christian authors to the genre of tragedy as a basis to explore the complexities of human finitude, suffering, and mortality in relation to the wisdom, justice, and providence of God. The book argues that various Christian writers, particularly in the post-Constantinian era, were keenly devoted to the mimesis, or imaginative re-presentation, of the tragic dimension of creaturely existence more than with simply mimicking the poetics of the classical Greek and Roman tragedians. It analyses a whole array of hermeneutical, literary, and rhetorical manifestations of "tragical mimesis" in early Christian writing, which, capitalizing on the elements of tragedy already perceptible in biblical revelation, aspired to deepen and edify Christian engagement with multiform evil and with the extreme vicissitudes of historical existence. Early Christian tragical mimetics included not only interpreting (and often amplifying) the Bible's own tragedies for contemporary audiences, but also developing models of the Christian self as a tragic self, revamping the Christian moral conscience as a tragical conscience, and cultivating a distinctively Christian tragical pathos. The study culminates in an extended consideration of the theological intelligence and accountability of "tragical vision" and tragical mimesis in early Christian literary culture, and the unique role of the theological virtue of hope in its repertoire of tragical emotions.
This engaging and insightful analysis of tragedy in relation to early Christian literature provides a timely intervention within a flourishing area of scholarly interest.
Table of Contents:
Preface & Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction - Excavating Tragical Perspectives in Early Christianity: Trajectories of Inquiry and Interpretive Challenges
Tragical Mimesis and Biblical Interpretation I: Primitive Tragedies in Genesis
Tragical Mimesis and Biblical Interpretation II: Exposing and Expounding the Tragic in Sacred History
The Tragic Christian Self: Three Late-Ancient Profiles
Tragical Conscience: Contemplating the Faces and Bodies of Tragedy in the Foreground of the Church
Tragical Pathos: The Expanding Christian Repertoire of Tragical Emotions
The Theological Scope of Early Christian Tragical Vision
Epilogue: Hope and the Christian Tragical Pathos
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