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Tragic Instance

Author : Ralph Berry

Publisher : University of Delaware Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 34,7 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780874136852

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"Tragic Instance follows Shakespeare's progress through his tragedies. The book accepts Kenneth Muir's prescription, "There is no such thing as Shakespearian Tragedy: there are only Shakespearian tragedies." Accordingly, each of the tragedies, from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus, is studied in order of composition. Richard III and Richard II are included because each is described as "tragedy" on the title page. No larger unity is seen. The play is everything that is the case."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved





Greek Lyric, Tragedy, and Textual Criticism

Author : W. S. Barrett

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 528 pages

File Size : 19,20 MB

Release : 2007-06-07

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0191525286

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W. S. Barrett (1914-2001) was one of the finest Hellenists of the second half of the twentieth century, known above all for his celebrated edition of Euripides' Hippolytus. This volume of his collected scholarly papers includes five articles published between 1954 and 1978, together with a much larger number of others that remained unpublished in his lifetime and are made known here for the first time. They deal mainly with Greek lyric poetry (Stesichorus, Pindar, Bacchylides) and Tragedy. Students of Greek literature will welcome this unexpected posthumous addition to Barrett's oeuvre, as well as the reappearance of the published articles.





Tragedy and the Tragic in German Literature, Art, and Thought

Author : Stephen D. Dowden

Publisher : Boydell & Brewer

Page : 382 pages

File Size : 46,87 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Art

ISBN : 1571135855

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Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history.



Instances of Death in Greek Tragedy

Author : Sorana-Cristina Man

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 275 pages

File Size : 46,45 MB

Release : 2020-03-20

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1527548732

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In some versions of the myth, Iphigenia was due to be immolated by her father on Artemis’ altar before the beginning of the Trojan War, but was replaced by the goddess with a deer, at the last moment. This is the most staggering, and perhaps best-known, rite of sacrifice in Greek tragedy. Perfectly symmetrical, the end of this war is marked by another human tribute, Polyxena. Some of the topics investigated in this volume include whether these sacrifices, as well as similar ones such as those of Macaria and Menoeceus, the husbands of the Danaides, the hero Pentheus, and Aegisthus, are all a way to balance things out, or whether they cause an even greater unbalance.



Tragedy and After

Author : Ekbert Faas

Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 20,16 MB

Release : 1986

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780773506053

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"Faas has written a provocative book, challenging the familiar literary and philosophical theories of tragedy from Aristotle onwards. His judicious use of nietzschean insights both stimulates and compels assent. Exuberant scholarship from first page to last." Irving Layton.



Radical Tragedy

Author : Jonathan Dollimore

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 419 pages

File Size : 28,77 MB

Release : 2010-04-09

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1137086408

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When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An engaged reading of the past with compelling contemporary significance, Radical Tragedy remains a landmark study of Renaissance drama and a classic of cultural materialist criticism. The corrected and reissued third edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a candid new Preface by the author and features a Foreword by Terry Eagleton.



Tragic Drama and Modern Society

Author : John Orr

Publisher : Springer

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 29,59 MB

Release : 1989-03-16

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1349198293

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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".



The Locus of Tragedy

Author : Arthur Cools

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 17,36 MB

Release : 2008-12-31

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9047443225

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Ask for the tragic and Europe will answer. Leaving behind the philosophers’ enthusiasm of the nineteenth century, ‘tragedy’ and ‘the tragic’ now seem little more than vague containers. However, it appears that we still discover a tragic essence in our personal lives. Time and again tragedy is being registered, written down and staged. This book wants to open a contemporary philosophical perspective on the tragic. What is the locus of tragedy? Does it relate to metaphysics, the gods, destiny, and chance? Or is it a matter of ethics, of the Law and its transgression? Does man himself occupy the locus of tragedy, because of his unreasonable and boundless desires, as many philosophers have suggested? Is man today still able to account for his tragic condition? Or do we locate the tragic first and foremost in the esthetic imagination? Is not the theatrical genre of tragedy the locus authenticus of all things tragic? Is there more to the tragic than drama and play?