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SUMMARY:The Tragic Critic After 9/11: Reading Today’s World - Dr Jennife
 r Wallace\, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Peterhou
 se\, and affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of English
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DESCRIPTION:Philosophers and theatre scholars often demarcate the aestheti
 c\, literary or dramatic genre of tragedy from what we might think of trag
 ic history. We must draw a clear dividing line\, they say\, between Traged
 y on the stage or the page of a theoretical text and the “glib” way in
  which the term is bandied about by journalists to describe everyday occur
 rences. But what if we were to reverse this assumption and pay tragic even
 ts as much serious critical attention as we devote to fictional tragedy?\n
 \nUsing the hermeneutics of traditional tragedy\, Jennifer Wallace aims to
  read global responses to crises over the last two decades\, our post 9/11
  era. In particular\, in this talk\, she will focus on two important terms
  from Aristotle’s Poetics: Anagnorisis (or recognition) and Hamartia (or
  mistake). These notions play a crucial role in understanding such contemp
 orary concerns as drone warfare and the climate emergency but are also put
  under pressure by these modern developments. To what extent does the post
 -9/11 world push at the boundaries of tragic definition?\n\nBook your tick
 et here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-tragic-critic-after-911-reading-
 todays-world-tickets-85222232993
LOCATION:Fitzwilliam House  32 Trumpington Street
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