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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... described a primitive stage in which the father had unlimited power , which he used brutally , depriving his sons of ... described by the Cambridge School of Classical Anthropologists , Fergusson described a tragic rhythm that “ analyzes ...
... described two broad ap- proaches : derivative , which postulates an a priori order of which tragedy is an expression , and substantive , which derives a definition from the works examined . He described the history of tragic theory as ...
... described the framework simply as a " causal sequence , " a larger scheme of cause and effect into which the individual must ultimately fit.27 For Suzanne Langer , the outward events , which are frequently described as fate , function ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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