Sweet Violence : The Idea of the Tragic
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Format
Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
0631233601
ISBN-13
9780631233602
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint
Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 22nd, 2002
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
512 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.30 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theoryHistory of ideasHistory of ideas
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Providing a comprehensive study of tragedy, this book deals with both theory and practice. It explores the idea of the tragic in the novel, examining such writers as Melville, Hawthorne, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Manzoni, Goethe and Mann, as well as English novelists.
Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists. Provides an analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the ancient world to the present day. Explores the idea of the 'tragic' across all genres of writing, as well as in philosophy, politics, religion and psychology, and throughout western culture. Considers the psychological, religious and socio-political implications and consequences of our fascination with the tragic.
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