Author: Cleanth BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Tragic Themes in Western literature
Author: Cleanth BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Tragic Themes in Western Literature
Author: Cleanth BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Tragic themes in western literature
Author: Cleanth BrooksTRAGIC THEMES IN WESTERN LITERATURE
Author: C. BROOKSTragic Themes in Western Literature
Author: Cleanth BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Tragic Themes in Western Literature
Author: Cleanth BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Tragic Themes in Western Literature
Author: Cleanth BrooksTragic Themes in Western Literature
Author: Cleanth BrooksPublisher:
ISBN: 9780758101365
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature
Author: Richard GaskinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351017012
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing of a protagonist’s suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognized by recent critics, traditional tragedy represents suffering as incurred by avoidable and culpable mistakes of a cognitive nature. Moral redress operates in the first instance at the level of the individual agent. Linguistic redress, by contrast, operates at a higher level of generality, namely at the level of the community: its fundamental motor is the sheer expressibility of suffering in words. Against many writers on tragedy, Gaskin argues that language is competent to express pain and suffering, and that tragic literature has that expression as one its principal purposes. The definition of tragic literature in this book is expanded to include more than stage drama: the treatment stretches from the Classical and Medieval periods through to the early twentieth century. There is a special focus on Sophocles, but Gaskin takes account of most other major tragic authors in the European tradition, including Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, Seneca, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Büchner, Ibsen, Hardy, Kafka, and Mann; lesser-known areas, such as Renaissance neo-Latin tragedy, are also covered. Among theorists of tragedy, Gaskin concentrates on Aristotle and Bradley; but the contributions of numerous contemporary commentators are also assessed. Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective offers a new and genuinely interdisciplinary perspective on tragedy that will be of considerable interest both to philosophers of literature and to literary critics.
Modern Literature and the Tragic
Author: K. M. NewtonPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748636749
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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.