“There are no Heroes in Nature: Comedy, Tragedy, and our Place in Creation”
In this talk, Dr. Gibney blends literary studies and ecology to reveal the ways that the tragic mode–invented by the Greek tragedians–influences our lives, pulling us farther away from what we know is real about this world. He gives audiences tools to read echoes of classical tragedy in our culture, to build an expanded understanding of comedy, and to examine how the tragic and the comic play out in the cycle of non-human life, where the only rule is “the game must go on.”