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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... literary artifacts . Beyond strictly literary or dramatic concerns , a number of writers may use individual plays as examples but derive definitions of tragedy essentially from social , metaphysical , or aesthetic values that may exist ...
... literary critics of the twentieth century . His criticism encompassed broad cultural movements and related them to literary periods . Frye received over thirty honorary degrees and authored a large number of books and articles ...
... Literary Criticism ( 1948 ) argued that the methods of modern literary criticism must incorporate knowl- edge from outside the field of literature ; lago : Some Approaches to the Illusions of His Motivation appeared in 1970 . Jaspers ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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