Tragedy and Tragic Theory: An Analytical GuideComprehending tragedy has been a major philosophical and critical preoccupation in Western thought. Whether concerned with the generic problem of definition or with tragedy in the context of specific writers or periods, books with multiple and often conflicting perspectives abound. In an effort to bring order to the explanations over two millennia, Tragedy and Tragic Theory lucidly analyzes the principal ideas about tragedy from Plato to the present. |
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... concept of tragedy . Even sophisticated audience members may lack a formal definition but still come to a tragedy with expectations developed from at least a vague notion of how tragedy works . The playwright and audience members ...
... concept but in a specific set of assumed meanings or in the totality of all attempts to define that concept . A Working Hypothesis Our survey of tragic theory will reveal a consistent theme : Tragedy evokes an ambivalent response that ...
... concept and without the incitement of desire . " Like a game played in a no - man's - land between sense and concept , Beauty depends on rules determined by a sensus communis , an agreed - on and shared set of aesthetic standards that ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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