Ludic Turns. Challenging the Tragedy/Comedy Dichotomy
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429266393-10" target="_blank" >10.4324/9780429266393-10</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ludic Turns. Challenging the Tragedy/Comedy Dichotomy
Original language description
The gradually emerging dialogue between Alice Koubová and Freddie Rokem challenges the traditional hegemonic dichotomy between tragedy and comedy by exploring the instability and the potential of the notion of the “ludic” as the experience or site through which this traditional genre divide is contested, displaced and subverted. The dialogue sets out from two different disciplinary points of departure, gradually negotiating the compatibility of the two approaches. Koubová begins by claiming that since subjectivity has been destabilized through modernity, it can be most aptly understood through different aspects of play, playfulness, ludic ethos, and ludic subjectivity. She explores how “play” links together thinkers preoccupied with human ontology and theatricality (Huizinga, Caillois, Goffman, Fink, Turner and Schechner, Sutton-Smith), emotional and ethical development through play (Klein, Winnicott, Fink, Spariousu) and ludic aspects in theater and acting (Dürrenmatt or Brecht). Rokem approaches the “ludic” by examining the aesthetic practices (or the machinery) of the theater and in particular of eavesdropping, which is a frequently-occurring scenic construction and a mise en abyme of this practice, even serving as a central feature of its dispositive. Exemplifying with scenes from Hamlet and Tartuffe, and with Foucault’s heterotopic mirror, he argues that eavesdropping scenes serve as a model for/of genre instability.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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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
Genre Transgressions: Dialogues on Tragedy and Comedy
ISBN
978-0-367-21830-0
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
128-146
Number of pages of the book
285
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
Abingdon
UT code for WoS chapter
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