The Concepts of Tragedy, Freedom, and Woman’s Liberation in the Play "Attila, my Attila!" by Michael Field

The Concepts of Tragedy, Freedom, and Woman’s Liberation in the Play
Author: Aleksandra Dediukina
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2024-05-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3389025901

Seminar paper from the year 2024 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Decadent Art and Literature, language: English, abstract: This paper contains the analysis of the selected scenes of Michael Field’ play "Attila, my Attila!", examined through the prism of Nikolas Berdiaev’s work "The Destiny of Man". Specifically, the perception of human tragedy in both works was touched upon: The authors declare its entanglement with human freedom. According to Field and Berdiaev, to respond to tragedy, one must act and fight against the imposed artificial norms, dictated by secular and religious institutions. By acting, one reveals their vital creative potential that provides them with inner strength that is impossible to be ruined by any calamities. A similar concept of tragedy can also be traced in the works of Nikolas Berdiaev, Russian Orthodox philosopher of the 20th century. Although there is no evidence that he could ever read Field’s play (which is overall highly unlikely), Berdiaev writes about tragedy, freedom, creativeness, and personality in a way that chimes with that of Field’s. In Berdiaev’s ethical system, a human is inherently endowed with freedom by God; However, freedom makes life tragic because it brings responsibility for one’s choice. The only way to overcome tragedy is to embrace creativeness — a quality that differs an individual, which is a biological category, from a wholesome personality. These ideas are represented in the most prominent Berdiaev’s works. In this paper, analysis of tragedy, as it was understood by the philosopher, will be carried out on the material of "The Destiny of Man" (Berdiaev: 1931, quoted as D.M.). Berdiaev’s core ideas, reflected in this book, will be applied to "Attila, my Attila!" in order to discover similarities and differences in the way the three authors in question viewed the tragedy of human life. It is important to stress that Field’s work is mostly focused on tragedy from a female angle, while Berdiaev explores this notion in a more general, human sense.

Attila, My Attila

Attila, My Attila
Author: Michael Field
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2019-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780526687534

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Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922

Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922
Author: Sarah Parker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2024-02-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1003853641

While W. B. Yeats’s influential account of the ‘Tragic Generation’ claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by attending to the twentieth-century poetry produced by women poets Alice Meynell, Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper), Dollie Radford, and Katharine Tynan. While primarily associated with the late nineteenth century, these poets were active in the twentieth century, but their later writing is overlooked in modernist-dominated studies, partly due to this poetry’s adherence to traditional form. This book reveals that these poets, far from being irrelevant to modernity, used these established forms to address contemporary concerns, including suffrage, sexuality, motherhood, and the First World War. The chapters focus on Meynell’s manipulations of metre to contemplate temporality and literary tradition; Michael Field’s use of blank verse to portray the conflicted modern woman; Radford’s adaptation of the aesthetic song-like lyric to tackle the experience of the city, urban crime, and suffrage; and Tynan’s employment of the ballad to soothe bereaved mothers during the First World War. This book ultimately shows that traditional forms played a vital role in shaping mature women poets’ responses to modernity, illuminating debates about form, tradition, and gender in twentieth-century poetry.

Attila, My Attila - Scholar's Choice Edition

Attila, My Attila - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Division of Gastroenterology Michael Field
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2015-02-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781297178986

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Attila, a Tragedy in Four Acts

Attila, a Tragedy in Four Acts
Author: Laurence Binyon
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2015-08-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781340398149

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Attila, a Tragedy in Four Acts

Attila, a Tragedy in Four Acts
Author: Binyon Laurence 1869-1943
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2013-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781313044868

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ATTILA A TRAGEDY IN 4 ACTS

ATTILA A TRAGEDY IN 4 ACTS
Author: Laurence 1869-1943 Binyon
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2016-08-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781360459912

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