The Interruption (Picture Frame)

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-146
Author(s):  
Martin Eisner
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Earthly Paradise ◽  
Formal Innovation ◽  
Picture Frame

This chapter uses Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s reframing of his painting The Salutation of Beatrice to consider the significance of Dante’s decision to present Beatrice’s death as an interruption that cuts off his composition of a canzone with the beginning of Jeremiah’s Lamentations. Exploring the adaptations of Dante’s fracture in Barthes, Glück, and Goodman, this chapter highlights Dante’s formal innovation which also interrupts the rhythm of reading that Dante uses the divisions to establish and then upset after Beatrice’s death. The chapter also explores the larger political implications of Dante’s quotation of Lamentations, which were controversially elaborated by Gabriele Rossetti, but anticipate Dante’s bold presentation of Beatrice in Earthly Paradise, where he overcomes his personal mourning by situating Beatrice in a broad political procession of world history.

Euripides and the Politics of Form

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Wohl
Keyword(s):  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Politics Of Form ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Formal Innovation ◽  
Aesthetic Structure

How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together. Providing a new approach to the aesthetics and politics of Greek tragedy, this book argues that the poetic form of Euripides' drama constitutes a mode of political thought. Through readings of select plays, the book explores the politics of Euripides' radical aesthetics, showing how formal innovation generates political passions with real-world consequences. Euripides' plays have long perplexed readers. With their disjointed plots, comic touches, and frequent happy endings, they seem to stretch the boundaries of tragedy. But the plays' formal traits—from their exorbitantly beautiful lyrics to their arousal and resolution of suspense—shape the audience's political sensibilities and ideological attachments. Engendering civic passions, the plays enact as well as express political ideas. The book draws out the political implications of Euripidean aesthetics by exploring such topics as narrative and ideological desire, the politics of pathos, realism and its utopian possibilities, the logic of political allegory, and tragedy's relation to its historical moment. Breaking through the impasse between formalist and historicist interpretations of Greek tragedy, the book demonstrates that aesthetic structure and political meaning are mutually implicated—and that to read the plays poetically is necessarily to read them politically.

Old World History

1969 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 622-624
Author(s):  
R. J. HERRNSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Old World

State-cathedral nature of the first-rate Kiev

2000 ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
M. M. Nikitenko
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Local Version ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Main Center

The inclusion of Eastern Slavs in the sphere of religious and cultural influences of Byzantium was a tremendous event both in national and in world history. Since then, the main center of the culture of Kievan Rus, incorporating a complex of ideas and functions of the spiritual, public and private life of ancient Russian society, became the Eastern Christian temple in its local version

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