User:Laurier Rochon/notes/essayIInotes

The infinite tragedy

Define the overarching frame of reference

• 1) What makes up a classical tragedy
• 2) What does this mean within the new frame of reference
• 3) How does this create infinite self-replicating tragedy?
• 4) "Narrativization" as a conclusion

Questions & Concepts :

• Look at classical definitions of tragedy
• Center things around structure
• What is the frame of reference (i.e. within electronic literature? online publications, etc.)
• About mourning and memory
• How is suffering represented through narrative
• What role does amnesia have in tragedies
• How can human suffering fully realised when disembodied
• How are communal and private tragedies constructed online?
• Narrativization of tragedies (you make things work - tragedies becoming narratives)
• Who controls the drama
• Who benefits from digital tragedy and why
• Structuralism?

References :

• Judith Butler : Precarious life - The Power of Mourning and Violence
• Susan Sontag : Regarding the Torture of Others
• Susan Sontag : On the pain of Others
• Friedrich Nietzsche : The Birth of Tragedy
• Aristotle : Poetics
• Janet Murray : Hamlet On The Holodec