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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... nature " and adopts the form of " Frivolity " ( I , pp . 4 , 6 ) . Tragedy indirectly depicts the ideal through the hero's rejection of the sensuousness that is manifest in suffering : The depicting of suffering , in the shape of simple ...
... nature , not at all to the inner nature of man " ( I , p . 142 ) . August Wilhelm Schlegel Seizing on the idea of human fragmentation inherent in Kant's philosophy , Schlegel , in his Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature ...
... nature . Northrop Frye , for example , described the framework simply as a " causal sequence , " a larger scheme of cause and effect into which the individual must ultimately fit.27 For Suzanne Langer , the outward events , which are ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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