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Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film
Agents of Vengeance
Series: - Metaforms, Volume: 16
Author:
Eric Dodson-Robinsonâs Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film challenges critical readings of drama, film, and literature that downplay agency. From Attic tragedy, through Seneca and Shakespeare, and into Japanese and Korean film, the book pursues the agent of vengeance in her fury to reconstruct an identity shattered by trauma. Tragic revenge is an imaginary theater only partly encompassed by disciplines, institutions, and discourses. In this theater, violence becomes contagious and potentially transformative as performance gives birth to the agent of vengeance: a complex, emergent agent who is more than the sum of the actors, auteur, tradition, and audience, all of whom infiltrate, and strive to control, her will. The agent of vengeance, determined to outdo past exemplars, exacts traumatic excess, not equivalence.
Eric Dodson-Robinson, PhD (2009), University of Illinois, is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His publications explore violence and agency in Senecan and Shakespearean tragedy and their cross-cultural receptions.
Introduction
1âThe Psychic Body
2âThe Body Politic
3âThe Dramatic Corpus
1 Violence, Revenge, and Metaphor in Aeschylusâs Oresteia
2 Rending others: Ethical Contagio in Senecaâs Thyestes
1âStoic Intertexts: Contagio and Ethical Agency
2âForeclosure and the Senecan Logic of Revenge
3âReges Scaenici
3 Failures of Language in Thomas Kydâs the Spanish Tragedy and Their Relation to Senecan Revenge Drama
4 Self, State, and Conscience in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet
1âSelf and State in Titus Andronicus
2âSelf and Conscience: Hamlet
5 Karma, Revenge, Apocalypse: Ranâs Violent Victim-Agent through Japanese and Western Contexts
6 Agents of the Other in Chan-wook Parkâs the Vengeance Trilogy
1âBody Politics of Mr. Vengeance: Harvesting Organs
2âThe Riddle of the Chaebol
3âPark kata Aeschylou
Epilogue
References
General Index
1âThe Psychic Body
2âThe Body Politic
3âThe Dramatic Corpus
1 Violence, Revenge, and Metaphor in Aeschylusâs Oresteia
2 Rending others: Ethical Contagio in Senecaâs Thyestes
1âStoic Intertexts: Contagio and Ethical Agency
2âForeclosure and the Senecan Logic of Revenge
3âReges Scaenici
3 Failures of Language in Thomas Kydâs the Spanish Tragedy and Their Relation to Senecan Revenge Drama
4 Self, State, and Conscience in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet
1âSelf and State in Titus Andronicus
2âSelf and Conscience: Hamlet
5 Karma, Revenge, Apocalypse: Ranâs Violent Victim-Agent through Japanese and Western Contexts
6 Agents of the Other in Chan-wook Parkâs the Vengeance Trilogy
1âBody Politics of Mr. Vengeance: Harvesting Organs
2âThe Riddle of the Chaebol
3âPark kata Aeschylou
Epilogue
References
General Index
All interested in revenge tragedy and film; agency; Shakespeare, Seneca, Aeschylus; and cross-cultural adaptations of the European dramatic tradition by Akira Kurosawa and Chan-wook Park.