Author: Edward Forman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004442782
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This comparative literary study re-evaluates French tragedy’s impact on current approaches to guilt and extenuation. Focussing on Racine but ranging widely, it sheds original light on tragic archetypes through the lenses of performance theory and modern attitudes towards blame.
Guilt and Extenuation in Tragedy
Author: Edward Forman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004442782
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This comparative literary study re-evaluates French tragedy’s impact on current approaches to guilt and extenuation. Focussing on Racine but ranging widely, it sheds original light on tragic archetypes through the lenses of performance theory and modern attitudes towards blame.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004442782
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This comparative literary study re-evaluates French tragedy’s impact on current approaches to guilt and extenuation. Focussing on Racine but ranging widely, it sheds original light on tragic archetypes through the lenses of performance theory and modern attitudes towards blame.
A New Theory of Tragedy
Author: Eva Wagner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781495504501
Category : Fate and fatalism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book uses the dramas of the Storm and Stress period as a major example of reference to fate and guilt concepts as potential rationalisation of tragic irrationality. They are compared to literary tragedies of the Western world leading to the conclusion that they summarize, the contradict, and to some extent predict all major solutions to tragic insolubility.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781495504501
Category : Fate and fatalism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book uses the dramas of the Storm and Stress period as a major example of reference to fate and guilt concepts as potential rationalisation of tragic irrationality. They are compared to literary tragedies of the Western world leading to the conclusion that they summarize, the contradict, and to some extent predict all major solutions to tragic insolubility.
An American Tragedy
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 917
Book Description
Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 917
Book Description
Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.
Modes of the Tragic in Spanish Cinema
Author: Luis M. González
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031193253
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book focuses on expressions of the tragic in Spanish cinema. Its main premise is that elements from the classical and modern tragic tradition persist and permeate many of the cultural works created in Spain, especially the films on which the book centers this study. The inscrutability and indolence of the gods, the mutability of fortune, the recurrent narratives of fall and redemption, the unavoidable clash between ethical forces, the tension between free will and fate, the violent resolution of both internal and external conflicts, and the overwhelming feelings of guilt that haunt the tragic heroine/hero are consistent aspects that traverse Spanish cinema as a response to universal queries about human suffering and death.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031193253
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book focuses on expressions of the tragic in Spanish cinema. Its main premise is that elements from the classical and modern tragic tradition persist and permeate many of the cultural works created in Spain, especially the films on which the book centers this study. The inscrutability and indolence of the gods, the mutability of fortune, the recurrent narratives of fall and redemption, the unavoidable clash between ethical forces, the tension between free will and fate, the violent resolution of both internal and external conflicts, and the overwhelming feelings of guilt that haunt the tragic heroine/hero are consistent aspects that traverse Spanish cinema as a response to universal queries about human suffering and death.
An American Tragedy
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
"Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?" -Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925) An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser is based on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown, her lover's immorality, and his subsequent trial. The novel, laced with dramatic intrigue, is on Time magazine's list of Top 100 All-Time novels. Dreiser's tale follows the life of Clyde Griffiths and his struggle to live a successful life. His ultimate desire for status and women thwart his life goal. A tragedy in all definitions of the term, this novel is for those interested in the human condition and the demise of a common man.
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
"Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?" -Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925) An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser is based on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown, her lover's immorality, and his subsequent trial. The novel, laced with dramatic intrigue, is on Time magazine's list of Top 100 All-Time novels. Dreiser's tale follows the life of Clyde Griffiths and his struggle to live a successful life. His ultimate desire for status and women thwart his life goal. A tragedy in all definitions of the term, this novel is for those interested in the human condition and the demise of a common man.
Ethical Aspects of Tragedy
Author: Laura Jepsen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Cold Spring Tragedy
Author: Nancy E. Clem
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Temperance Reformation
The Temperance Reformation: Its History, from the Organization of the First Temperance Society to the Adoption of the Liquor Law of Maine, 1851
Author: Lebbeus Armstrong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description