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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... values , Harris proposed the following : Tragedy is the projection of personal and collective values which are potentially or actually put in jeopardy by the course of the dramatic action ; while at the same time , the jeopardy of these ...
... Values . What attracts or repulses an audience and therefore , tragedy itself , depends on what the audience values . Each defi- nition of tragedy presupposes an audience value system , and the different value systems often account for ...
... values for the present , The Birthday Party demonstrates no metaphysical framework or system of values beyond those of Goldberg and McCann . Their power is as total as that of Dionysus in The Bacchae , without the ambiguously positive ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
The Circle of Inquiry | 105 |
The Scope of Tragedy | 133 |
Copyright | |
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