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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... poet dangerously " leads one to dwell on one's misfortunes , to lamentations , " and " destroys the reasonable part ... poets " must delete the lamentations of famous men . " This same prohibition against personal grief also forbids pity ...
... Poetics , indicated throughout by chapter numbers , are from the translation of S. H. Butcher ( New York : Bobbs - Merrill , Library of Liberal Arts , 1948 ) . 11. Aristotle , Politics , trans . Benjamin Jowett ( Oxford : Oxford ...
... poetic world , ” he referred to powers of the imagination rather than the form of diction . Requirements that tragedy show a poetic world assume that the real world will not do , that otherwise unsolvable problems or " mysteries " may ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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