Tragedy in the Modern Novel and the Modern Drama of Social Circumstance
Author : Ella Gertrude Cook
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 1922
Category :
ISBN :
Modern Literature and the Tragic
Author : K. M. Newton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748636749
Book Description
This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy. Although Ibsen has been accused of being responsible for the 'death of tragedy', Ken Newton argues that Ibsen instead generates an anti-tragic perspective that had a major influence on dramatists such as Shaw and Brecht. By contrast, writers such as Hardy and Conrad, influenced by Schopenhauerean pessimism and Darwinism, attempt to modernise the concept of the tragic. Nietzsche's revisionist interpretation of the tragic influenced writers who either take pessimism or the 'Dionysian' commitment to life to an extreme, as in Strindberg and D. H. Lawrence. Different views emerge in the period following the second world war with the 'Theatre of the Absurd' and postmodern anti-foundationalism.
Tragic Drama and Modern Society
Author : John Orr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 1989-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349198293
Book Description
A study that examines the relationship between tragic drama of the late 19th and 20th centuries and present-day society. The author's theories are presented with excerpts from relevant plays, such as "Look Back in Anger", "The Glass Menagerie", "The Iceman Cometh" and "Hedda Gabler".
Tragic Drama and Modern Society
Author : John Orr
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Book Description
Modern Tragedy
Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1448191300
Book Description
In Modern Tragedy, Williams bridges the gap between literary and socio-economic study, tracing the notion of tragedy from its philosophical and dramatic origins with Aristotle. In addition, Williams discusses tragedy in Chaucher, Nietzche, Brecht, Sartre and other leading figures in the history of thought, as well as elements of tragic experience – both political and personal - in socialist revolutions of the 20th century.
Tragic Drama and Modern Society
Author : John Orr
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN :
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Tragedy and the Modernist Novel
Author : Manya Lempert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1108496024
Book Description
This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in British and European modernism, philosophy, science and literature, and classical reception studies. It will also interest scholars studying the novel or tragedy more generally.
The Death of Tragedy
Author : George Steiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Book Description
The renowned literary critic George Steiner here explores the history of the drama in the post-tragic era. He focuses on the inability of its dramatists to seize on the new instrument of modern prose, demonstrating how the grip of the past has paralyzed the talent of latter-day playwrights.
Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence
Author : S. Simkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230597114
Book Description
This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death, revenge and justice, and gender and violence. What happens when we connect The White Devil with Basic Instinct ? The Changeling or Titus Andronicus with Straw Dogs ? Doctor Faustus with Se7en ? Taxi Driver with The Spanish Tragedy ? Appealing to those with an interest in either drama or film, written in an engaging style, the book also reconsiders the high /popular culture divide, and reflects on the enduring significance of the revenge motif in Western culture over the past four hundred years, particularly in the post 9/11 context.
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Question of Tragedy in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
Author : Kevin Taylor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567247651
Book Description
What role do novels, drama, and tragedy play within Christian thought and living? The twentieth century Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar addressed these questions using tragic drama. For him, Christ was the true tragic hero of the world who exceeded all tragic literature and experience. Balthasar demonstrated how ancient, pre-Christian tragedy and Renaissance works contained important Christian concepts, but he critiqued modern novels as failing to be either truly tragic or Christian. By examining the tragic novels of Thomas Hardy on their own terms, we have an important counterpoint to Balthasar's argument that the novel is too prosaic for theological reflection. Hardy's novels are an apt pairing for examination and critique, as they are both classically and biblically influenced, as well as contemporary.The larger implication for Balthasar's theology is that his innovations in theological aesthetics and tragedy must be expanded in the light of modernity and the tragic novel.
