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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... ideal reality , which is reliably attained only through reason . ' He specifically accused tragedy of showing the suffering of men who ought to be admirable , thus tainting models of behavior and undermining the audience's confidence in ...
... Ideal and its reflections ; the Christians , be- tween the flesh and the spirit . Plato faulted tragedy for offering no reliable means to reach his Ideal , and Aristotle defended tragedy with the argument that it moves the audience ...
... ideal . " Playful satire " is " confined to the treatment of subjects of morally unimportant nature " and adopts the form of " Frivolity " ( I , pp . 4 , 6 ) . Tragedy indirectly depicts the ideal through the hero's rejection of the ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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