The Metaphysical Dramas: Playing Against All Odds
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Metaphysical Dramas: Playing Against All Odds
Original language description
This chapter discusses the ways in which Byron's trailblazing texts Manfred, Cain, and Heaven and Earth explore the limits of agonism, the traditional essence of dramatic conflict, pitching the quest for political liberty and intellectual freedom against the seemingly unassailable supremacy of assorted metaphysical powers and their authoritarian censure. Byron's three dramas interrogate the claim of all metaphysical hegemonies to moral authority. The plays disrupt moral closure and perform a radical revision of traditional ethics, demarcating the limits of authoritarianism's reach, and postulating the autonomy of innate individual ethics. Where the conservative critics of the age saw merely blasphemy, the twenty-first-century reader finds a complex philosophical challenge to orthodoxy's pretensions to moral power. These texts are poised between playful critiques of establishment rhetoric and revolutionary dissent that seeks to upend the status quo. Byron's challenge to metaphysics and its discontents thus represents a lasting affirmation of freedom, with profound philosophical and political resonances for our own increasingly out-of-joint times.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron
ISBN
978-0-19-880880-0
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
187-202
Number of pages of the book
784
Publisher name
Oxford University Press
Place of publication
Oxford
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