Proposal Title : Values Across Space and Time
Proposal acronym: VAST
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROGRAMM
Scientific Director : Theodore Grammatas, Emeritus Professor
PILOT 1: VALUES IN GREEK TRAGEDIES AND THEIR MODERN ADAPTATIONS
Theoretical background
In the era of postmodernity, the general belief in the autonomy of the text has been abandoned. The author’s meaning may be inherent in the original text, but is produced and reproduced by the recipient, the reader or the spectator, who is the final co-author of the meaning. In theatre and dramatic text, the performative and imaging discourse, which is appropriated by the audience, signifies the scenic transcription and formation of the play within socio-historical contexts.
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