The Tragic Protestis, what has been said already says that no anticipations of aesthetic theory are in place here. When research stays on the level of primitive imagination, prior to the distinction between real and unreal, to merge art with life, it cannot serve as guideline for thoughts on what is distinctive within art. No canons of composition can be forthcoming, even the very concept of composition, implying a composer, must remain inadmissible; since, unlike the one of tragic art, the composer of tragic life will be here in question. No analysis of form need be expected, and when a form of vision is described, it will not be what artistic critics are used to dissect. Purely aesthetic instruments, such as plot, contrast, harmony, proper pitch, likene3s, recognition, com pleteness, will be of no use and no relevance at all. And it hardly need be mentioned that the age-fortified classification of artistic kinds remains strictly out of bounds. Here is perhaps the proper place to introduce a stylistic apology. I t is clear to everyone with a neat sense of seemliness in language that the use of unattached adjectives is very awkward in English. No one reading these paragraphs can be blamed for fidgeting when molested again and again with "the tragic" instead of "tragedy. " The excuse has perhaps transpired in the preceding passage. |
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... common . Common property , one would say , if what is proper , own , his , could ever be common ; rather it is the case that property of self becomes annihilated there . This is how men be- come common . Each one yields himself to all ...
... common . Common property , one would say , if what is proper , own , his , could ever be common ; rather it is the case that property of self becomes annihilated there . This is how men be- come common . Each one yields himself to all ...
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... common : " I lay no claim to any sort of distinction . I am the son of humble countryfolk , and I am proud that I come from common people . " This is what a man has to say in the crowd , and this is what the crowd applauds . What a ...
... common : " I lay no claim to any sort of distinction . I am the son of humble countryfolk , and I am proud that I come from common people . " This is what a man has to say in the crowd , and this is what the crowd applauds . What a ...
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... common loss . Such an alternative was seen in Hamlet's conscientious in - dwelling into himself ; more of it will be seen in Orestes . But the alternative situation of man can also be approached through what properly happens to Thomas ...
... common loss . Such an alternative was seen in Hamlet's conscientious in - dwelling into himself ; more of it will be seen in Orestes . But the alternative situation of man can also be approached through what properly happens to Thomas ...
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