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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... mystery . Hathorn derived these concepts from the philosopher Gabriel Marcel : A problem is something which I meet , which I find complete before me , but which I can therefore lay seige to and reduce . But a mystery is something in ...
... mystery , " since " only symbolically can a mystery be entered , participated in , coped with " ( pp . 25-26 ) . Foremost among lit- erature , tragedy confronts mystery and utilizes myth . The hamartia is a " blind spot " of the tragic ...
... mystery , whereas science strives to comprehend portions of this mystery , [ and ] tragedy enhances the mystery by dramatizing the question " ( p . 2 ) . Pleasure in tragedy results from acknowledging this mystery : " There is pleasure ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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