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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... Human Will Ferdinand Brunetičre In The Law of the Drama ( 1893 ) , Ferdinand Brunetičre reversed the Ro- mantic notion of the inferiority of human will in comparison with the Spirit . Rejecting speculation concerning the " real ...
... human search for moral order , even though ultimately that order occurs only within the individual . He rejected Supernaturalism as unsuitable for tragedy because it denies the human element , as well as Naturalism , because it denies a ...
... human considerations . THE METAPHYSICAL AFFIRMATION OF HUMAN WORTH Joseph Wood Krutch Rather than reducing metaphysics into subjective imperatives , Krutch transformed subjective values into metaphysics , insisting on the objective ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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