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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... force : " By beauty the sensuous man is led to form and thought ; by beauty the spiritual man is brought back to matter and restored to the world of sense " ( I , p . 64 ) .8 Art brings together form and matter without offending their ...
... force that operates on a similar presumption of guilt . In order to universalize the action beyond its application ... force . Pinter has provided such a wide range of possible forces which Goldberg and McCann could symbolize that the ...
... force of reckoning . If we demand no more of tragedy than oppression of the individual by superior forces , this play presents no difficulties . Clive Barnes , in his review of the Off - Broadway production of the play , equated this ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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