The Resource Whom gods destroy: elements of Greek and tragic madness
Whom gods destroy: elements of Greek and tragic madness
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- Summary
- Madness is central to Western tragedy in all epochs, but we find the origins of this centrality in early Greece: in Homeric insight into the "damage a damaged mind can do." Greece, and especially tragedy, gave the West its permanent perception of madness as violent and damaging. Drawing on her deep knowledge of anthropology, psychoanalysis, Shakespeare, and the history of madness, as well as of Greek language and literature, Ruth Padel probes the Greek language of madness, which is fundamental to tragedy: translating, making it reader-friendly to nonspecialists, and showing how Greek images continued through medieval and Renaissance societies into a "rough tragic grammar" of madness in the modern period
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 276 pages
- Contents
-
- Ch. 1. Introduction: "He First Makes Mad"
- pt. 1. Language and Timing. Ch. 2. Tragic Madness Words. Ch. 3. God of the Verb. Ch. 4. Temporary versus Long-term Madness
- pt. 2. Darkness and Vision. Ch. 5. Inner Shadow. Ch. 6. The Afterlife of Inner Blackness. Ch. 7. Dark, Twisted Seeing. Ch. 8. True Seeing. Ch. 9. A Legacy of True Mad Seeing
- pt. 3. Isolation: Wandering, Disharmony, Pollution. Ch. 10. Stone: Madness Is Outside. Ch. 11. "Alienus": Resonances of Mad Wandering. Ch. 12. Inner Wandering. Ch. 13. Daemonic Dance. Ch. 14. Skin: Pollution and Shame. Ch. 15. Disease, Passion
- pt. 4. Damage. Ch. 16. Mind Damage before Tragedy. Ch. 17. Homer's Damage-Chain. Ch. 18. The Two Roles of Madness. Ch. 19. "Haywire City" Ch. 20. Divine Double Bind
- pt. 5. Madness: A Rough Tragic Grammar. Ch. 21. Mad in Another World. Ch. 22. Knowledge That Is Sad to Have to Know
- Appendix. Ate in Tragedy: The Thinning of the Word
- Isbn
- 9780691033600
- Label
- Whom gods destroy: elements of Greek and tragic madness
- Title
- Whom gods destroy: elements of Greek and tragic madness
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Madness is central to Western tragedy in all epochs, but we find the origins of this centrality in early Greece: in Homeric insight into the "damage a damaged mind can do." Greece, and especially tragedy, gave the West its permanent perception of madness as violent and damaging. Drawing on her deep knowledge of anthropology, psychoanalysis, Shakespeare, and the history of madness, as well as of Greek language and literature, Ruth Padel probes the Greek language of madness, which is fundamental to tragedy: translating, making it reader-friendly to nonspecialists, and showing how Greek images continued through medieval and Renaissance societies into a "rough tragic grammar" of madness in the modern period
- Cataloging source
- UkLiU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1946-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Padel, Ruth
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PA3131
- LC item number
- .P23 1995
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Greek drama (Tragedy)
- Literature and mental illness
- Mythology, Greek, in literature
- Mentally ill in literature
- Gods, Greek, in literature
- Label
- Whom gods destroy: elements of Greek and tragic madness
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction: "He First Makes Mad" -- pt. 1. Language and Timing. Ch. 2. Tragic Madness Words. Ch. 3. God of the Verb. Ch. 4. Temporary versus Long-term Madness -- pt. 2. Darkness and Vision. Ch. 5. Inner Shadow. Ch. 6. The Afterlife of Inner Blackness. Ch. 7. Dark, Twisted Seeing. Ch. 8. True Seeing. Ch. 9. A Legacy of True Mad Seeing -- pt. 3. Isolation: Wandering, Disharmony, Pollution. Ch. 10. Stone: Madness Is Outside. Ch. 11. "Alienus": Resonances of Mad Wandering. Ch. 12. Inner Wandering. Ch. 13. Daemonic Dance. Ch. 14. Skin: Pollution and Shame. Ch. 15. Disease, Passion -- pt. 4. Damage. Ch. 16. Mind Damage before Tragedy. Ch. 17. Homer's Damage-Chain. Ch. 18. The Two Roles of Madness. Ch. 19. "Haywire City" Ch. 20. Divine Double Bind -- pt. 5. Madness: A Rough Tragic Grammar. Ch. 21. Mad in Another World. Ch. 22. Knowledge That Is Sad to Have to Know -- Appendix. Ate in Tragedy: The Thinning of the Word
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691033600
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- Whom gods destroy: elements of Greek and tragic madness
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction: "He First Makes Mad" -- pt. 1. Language and Timing. Ch. 2. Tragic Madness Words. Ch. 3. God of the Verb. Ch. 4. Temporary versus Long-term Madness -- pt. 2. Darkness and Vision. Ch. 5. Inner Shadow. Ch. 6. The Afterlife of Inner Blackness. Ch. 7. Dark, Twisted Seeing. Ch. 8. True Seeing. Ch. 9. A Legacy of True Mad Seeing -- pt. 3. Isolation: Wandering, Disharmony, Pollution. Ch. 10. Stone: Madness Is Outside. Ch. 11. "Alienus": Resonances of Mad Wandering. Ch. 12. Inner Wandering. Ch. 13. Daemonic Dance. Ch. 14. Skin: Pollution and Shame. Ch. 15. Disease, Passion -- pt. 4. Damage. Ch. 16. Mind Damage before Tragedy. Ch. 17. Homer's Damage-Chain. Ch. 18. The Two Roles of Madness. Ch. 19. "Haywire City" Ch. 20. Divine Double Bind -- pt. 5. Madness: A Rough Tragic Grammar. Ch. 21. Mad in Another World. Ch. 22. Knowledge That Is Sad to Have to Know -- Appendix. Ate in Tragedy: The Thinning of the Word
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691033600
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
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