Genre Transgressions

Ramona Mosse is the Head of Theatre at the Zurich University of the Arts.Anna Street is the Chair of the English Department and Lecturer in Theater and Performance Studies at Le Mans University in France.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgments List of ContributorsThe Transgressions of Genre: An Introduction RAMONA MOSSE AND ANNA STREETSCENE ITragedy and Comedy as Thought1 Crossing the Continuum: From Tragedy’s Beginnings to Comedy’s End CHRISTOPH MENKE AND ALENKA ZUPANČIČ2 Sophistry, Rhetoric, and Philosophy’s Genre ProblemSIMON CRITCHLEY IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA STREET AND RAMONA MOSSE3 Form, Genre, History: A DialogueCAROLINE LEVINE AND MARTIN PUCHNER4 Of Tragic Figures and Comic Paradigms: A Set of ProvocationsMARK ROBSON AND NIKOLAUS MÜLLER-SCHÖLLThe Necessity of a FigureMARK ROBSONThe Comic Paradigm in the Experience of ModernityNIKOLAUS MÜLLER-SCHÖLLResponses SCENE 2Dynamic Transfers Between Tragedy and Comedy5 Laughter and the Performance of DeathR. D. V. GLASGOW AND JENNIFER WALLACE6 Much Ado about Hamlet: An Exchange of LettersLEONARDO LISI AND GREGOR MODER7 Ludic Turns: Challenging the Tragedy/Comedy DichotomyALICE KOUBOVÁ AND FREDDIE ROKEM8 Reimagining the Future: Comedy and HopeRUSSELL FORD AND H. PETER STEEVESSCENE 3The Performative Futures of Tragedy and Comedy9 On Iterative Returns in Tragedy and ComedyKATRIN TRÜSTEDT AND MATTHIAS DREYERThe Sea-Change of Comedy: Hegelian Dialectics and Shakespearean PlayKATRIN TRÜSTEDTThe Blind Spots of Tragedy: Learning with Rabih Mroué How to Dance with the DeadMATTHIAS DREYERResponses 10 Tragedy and the Gender of Sacrifice: On "The Difference Between Poetry and Rhetoric"MISCHA TWITCHIN AND PIOTR GRUSZCZYNSKI 11 Tragedy and BeyondEDWARD BOND AND KATE KATAFIASZBeyond the Limit: Tragedy, Society, and the SelfEDWARD BONDBeyond Post-DramaKATE KATAFIASZ12 Tragedy and Transgression: A ConversationHANS-THIES LEHMANN AND JAN FABRE13 Of Ecstasy, Genre, and "Form-of-Life"KÉLINA GOTMAN AND KATJA VAGHIIndex