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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... feeling the blues— resides clearly in the area of subjective feeling and resist precise or easy description . One way of looking at the debate concerning the meaning of tragedy is to understand that most definitions assume that the word ...
... feeling that all our claims , however contradictory , have been brought into balance and satisfied , a feeling of equilibrium based upon fulfillment rather than the denial of those needs which cannot be fitted into the more impoverished ...
... feeling of insecurity only reinforces the char- acter's sense of inferiority , which he or she sublimates by blaming exterior forces or irrelevant interior factors such as bad memory , indolence , and so forth . This intolerable feeling ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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