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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... evil , fulfilling himself in goodness and canceling out his own identity in evil .... His resistance , stubborness , and pride drive him into the " greatness " of evil . His en- durance , his dauntlessness , his love , raise him into ...
... evil . " Evil feeds on goodness . This is the tragic fact . Without exquisite awareness of evil , therefore , there can be no dramatic tragedy " ( pp . 13–14 ) . Tragedy , however , dramatizes more than the pain or suffering produced by ...
... evil ? A theorist such as Richard Sewall , who allows unresolved evil in tragedy , still demands a reordering of values that encompasses the reality of evil while moving beyond it , if not in a redemptive sense , at least to the extent ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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