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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... Repulsion Why describe the tragic response in terms of attraction and repulsion ? These designations subsume a variety of more specific words describing essentially the same response , such as pleasure / pain , approach / retreat , pos ...
... repulsion unify within the context of the play , we respond to it as a unit , the parts of which are inseparable . Aristotle argued for necessity as a link to provide organic unity , heighten the sense of probability , and , therefore ...
... repulsion , each of which , if taken alone , would lie at separate ends of our continuum . The interdependence and balance of attraction and repulsion provide the really useful basis for defining tragedy , rather than the arousal of ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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