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Rebecca Powers deposited Embodying History for Social Change in Jules Michelet’s Le Peuple (working document) on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
In his 1846 history-from-below, Le Peuple, Michelet presents himself as the embodiment of the history of France in order to reach beyond the discursive and effect social change. Unlike in many of his other histories, where an allegory of the body is used in the service of an overarching national or political narrative, the body in Le Peuple is…[Read more]
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Rebecca Powers deposited Reading Paris Underground: A Social Imaginary in the Long Nineteenth Century on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
This course traces the idea of “the underground” as it appears in French texts between 1788 and 1873 both from the literary canon and in other works that compose the larger cultural structure of the time. To gain a deeper understanding of literary works, and indeed what it meant for a text to be “literary” in the long nineteenth century, we look…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Athens: A Work-in-Progress in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis provocation contests the familiar construction of classical Athens as an ideal exemplar of democratic politics through a focus on the city’s material fabric, its visual artworks, and the performances which took place within its public spaces. It highlights the city’s ongoing process of material re-building (particularly following the Per…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Athens: A Work-in-Progress in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis provocation contests the familiar construction of classical Athens as an ideal exemplar of democratic politics through a focus on the city’s material fabric, its visual artworks, and the performances which took place within its public spaces. It highlights the city’s ongoing process of material re-building (particularly following the Per…[Read more]
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This provocation contests the familiar construction of classical Athens as an ideal exemplar of democratic politics through a focus on the city’s material fabric, its visual artworks, and the performances which took place within its public spaces. It highlights the city’s ongoing process of material re-building (particularly following the Per…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
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Stephe Harrop deposited Staging a Transforming Great Britain: Tamlane, The Social Turn, and the 2014 Referendum in the group
Ethnomusicology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis chapter emerges from the energies and aspirations of the years leading up to the Scottish Independence Referendum of September 2014, and explores three dramas created during this period: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (David Greig, 2011), The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project (Northern Stage, 2013) and Rantin (Kieran Hurley, 2013). It…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Staging a Transforming Great Britain: Tamlane, The Social Turn, and the 2014 Referendum on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
This chapter emerges from the energies and aspirations of the years leading up to the Scottish Independence Referendum of September 2014, and explores three dramas created during this period: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (David Greig, 2011), The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project (Northern Stage, 2013) and Rantin (Kieran Hurley, 2013). It…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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Stephe Harrop deposited The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey and The Factory, The Odyssey in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis extended review highlights an increasingly important aspect of the contemporary performance reception of the Odyssey in the UK, with growing numbers of practitioners and companies moving away from the straightforward dramatisation (or revisionist dramatic contestation) of Homer’s epic tale, and towards a deepening engagement with epic s…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey and The Factory, The Odyssey in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis extended review highlights an increasingly important aspect of the contemporary performance reception of the Odyssey in the UK, with growing numbers of practitioners and companies moving away from the straightforward dramatisation (or revisionist dramatic contestation) of Homer’s epic tale, and towards a deepening engagement with epic s…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Physical Performance and the Languages of Translation in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 8 years agoOur lack of reliable information concerning the physical and choreographic aspects of ancient tragic performance permits modern writers to construct their own imaginative re-creations of the ancient text/body relationship in a wide variety of modes. The range of ways in which texts translated or adapted from ancient tragedy are capable of…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Physical Performance and the Languages of Translation in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years agoOur lack of reliable information concerning the physical and choreographic aspects of ancient tragic performance permits modern writers to construct their own imaginative re-creations of the ancient text/body relationship in a wide variety of modes. The range of ways in which texts translated or adapted from ancient tragedy are capable of…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Poetic Language and Corporeality in Translations of Greek Tragedy in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe translation of ancient tragedy is often considered at a linguistic level, as if the drama consisted simply of words being written, spoken and heard. This article contends that translation for the stage is a process in which literary decisions have physical, as well as verbal, outcomes. It traces existing formulations concerning the links…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Poetic Language and Corporeality in Translations of Greek Tragedy in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe translation of ancient tragedy is often considered at a linguistic level, as if the drama consisted simply of words being written, spoken and heard. This article contends that translation for the stage is a process in which literary decisions have physical, as well as verbal, outcomes. It traces existing formulations concerning the links…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Speech, Silence and Epic Performance: Alice Oswald’s Memorial in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 8 years agoAlice Oswald’s recitation of her 2011 poem Memorial is an intensely modest, self-effacing performance. Yet it is also one which invites us to consider key questions about the ancient practice, and modern re-performance, of epic poetry. Oswald explicitly cites the antiphonal lament of Homeric funerary ritual as an influence upon her r…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Speech, Silence and Epic Performance: Alice Oswald’s Memorial in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years agoAlice Oswald’s recitation of her 2011 poem Memorial is an intensely modest, self-effacing performance. Yet it is also one which invites us to consider key questions about the ancient practice, and modern re-performance, of epic poetry. Oswald explicitly cites the antiphonal lament of Homeric funerary ritual as an influence upon her r…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited ‘Ercles’ Vein’: Heracles as Bottom in Ted Hughes’ Alcestis in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 8 years agoTed Hughes’ version of Euripides’ Alcestis (1999) is a play which diverges significantly from its ancient source-text, most notably in an interpolated sequence during which the drunken Heracles re-enacts his own labours, before experiencing traumatic visions. This article identifies this un-Euripidean interlude as a characteristic instance of int…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited ‘Ercles’ Vein’: Heracles as Bottom in Ted Hughes’ Alcestis in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years agoTed Hughes’ version of Euripides’ Alcestis (1999) is a play which diverges significantly from its ancient source-text, most notably in an interpolated sequence during which the drunken Heracles re-enacts his own labours, before experiencing traumatic visions. This article identifies this un-Euripidean interlude as a characteristic instance of int…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Grounded, Heracles and the Gorgon’s Gaze in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis review-essay discusses George Brant’s play Grounded (2013) in the context of its production at the Gate Theatre (London). It begins with a critical examination of my own “mis-seeing” of the play’s protagonist as a version of the tragic Heracles. The analysis which follows compares key aspects of The Pilot’s narrative with Euripides’ Heracles…[Read more]
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