Το τραγικό στοιχείο στα πεζογραφήματα της Βάσως Καλαμάρα
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2011
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Herodotou, Maria
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Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek
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Please note: This article is in Greek. Vasso kalamara’s tragic vision: This paper explores the tragic vision of life as expressed
in Vasso Kalmara’s collections of short stories Other Earth & Bitterness and in the play
The Bread Trap. The paper identifies the significant features, which define literary
works as “tragedies” and examines how the writer employs these features in her fiction.
The emphasis is given to the function of the following: the tragic “heroes” (i.e.
characters who initially show resistance and a will to change their life, which lead to
hopelessness and their ultimate fall/destruction by fate); tragic peripeteia (i.e. the sudden
change of fortune, which usually leads to suspense and ruin); tragic irony (i.e. the
antithesis between action and result, between appearance and reality and between verbal
word and true meaning of the situation); tragic anagnorisis (i.e. the moment of truth:
when ignorance is replaced by knowledge). Finally, the debated element of catharsis
is examined and its therapeutic effect through “pity and fear” as defined by Aristotle.
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Greek Research, Greece, Australia, Maria Herodotou, Μαρία Ηροδότου
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Herodotou, Maria 2009. Το τραγικό στοιχείο στα πεζογραφήματα της Βάσως Καλαμάρα. In M. Rossetto, M. Tsianikas, G. Couvalis and M. Palaktsoglou (Eds.) "Greek Research in Australia: Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University June 2009". Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek: Adelaide, 588-601.