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In Samson Agonistes the earlier dual concern with both personal morality and
historical destiny reappears but , in the process , it is radically transformed .
Lukács ' s account of the development of classical Greek thought from epic to
tragedy is ...
In Samson Agonistes the earlier dual concern with both personal morality and
historical destiny reappears but , in the process , it is radically transformed .
Lukács ' s account of the development of classical Greek thought from epic to
tragedy is ...
Page 180
The work conforms faithfully to the three classical unities of action , time and
place ; its use of the Chorus is archetypically classical ; the texture of its verse has
precisely the stiffness of Greek tragedy ; and both the world - historical ...
The work conforms faithfully to the three classical unities of action , time and
place ; its use of the Chorus is archetypically classical ; the texture of its verse has
precisely the stiffness of Greek tragedy ; and both the world - historical ...
Page 181
... the epic tradition — that is , an approach which creatively utilises , rather than
simply imitates , that tradition in order to achieve a distinctly new poetic
effectSamson Agonistes is merely imitative in its relation to the classical Greek
tragedy .
... the epic tradition — that is , an approach which creatively utilises , rather than
simply imitates , that tradition in order to achieve a distinctly new poetic
effectSamson Agonistes is merely imitative in its relation to the classical Greek
tragedy .
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Contents
Goldmanns Genetic Structuralism | 8 |
A Note on the Problem of Aesthetics | 18 |
Lukács and Socialist Realism | 24 |
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