Tragedy and AfterMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 01/08/1984 - 234 páginas "Faas has written a provocative book, challenging the familiar literary and philosophical theories of tragedy from Aristotle onwards. His judicious use of nietzschean insights both stimulates and compels assent. Exuberant scholarship from first page to last." Irving Layton |
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... , it survives in such psychoanalytic variants as Pirandello's Six Characters and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman . EKBERT FAAS is Professor of Humanities and English at York University in Toronto . This page intentionally left blank.
... , it survives in such psychoanalytic variants as Pirandello's Six Characters and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman . EKBERT FAAS is Professor of Humanities and English at York University in Toronto . This page intentionally left blank.
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... of Kālidāsa's Sacontalá 156 Aristotelian versus Sanskrit Poetics 158 Kalidasa's Influence on Goethe 160 Faust's Quest for the Eternal Feminine 167 Tragedy and Psychology 176 Oedipus Rex , Six Characters in viii Contents.
... of Kālidāsa's Sacontalá 156 Aristotelian versus Sanskrit Poetics 158 Kalidasa's Influence on Goethe 160 Faust's Quest for the Eternal Feminine 167 Tragedy and Psychology 176 Oedipus Rex , Six Characters in viii Contents.
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E. Faas. Tragedy and Psychology 176 Oedipus Rex , Six Characters in Search of an Author , and Death of a Salesman 177 Freud and Aristotle 180 Towards a Twentieth - Century Post - tragic Theatre 184 Conclusion 189 NOTES 192 INDEX 216 This ...
E. Faas. Tragedy and Psychology 176 Oedipus Rex , Six Characters in Search of an Author , and Death of a Salesman 177 Freud and Aristotle 180 Towards a Twentieth - Century Post - tragic Theatre 184 Conclusion 189 NOTES 192 INDEX 216 This ...
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... character portrayal . As Aristotle sees the matter , men are first of all moral agents of either good or bad quality . Secondly , they are , or at least ought to be , consistent , even to the degree of being at least consistently ...
... character portrayal . As Aristotle sees the matter , men are first of all moral agents of either good or bad quality . Secondly , they are , or at least ought to be , consistent , even to the degree of being at least consistently ...
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... character . Characterization in tragedy thus serves the same explanatory purpose as tragedy's vision of life in general . In the characters , just as in the incidents of the play , the right thing is “ to endeavour always after the ...
... character . Characterization in tragedy thus serves the same explanatory purpose as tragedy's vision of life in general . In the characters , just as in the incidents of the play , the right thing is “ to endeavour always after the ...
Índice
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The Birth of Tragedy | 25 |
Towards Antitragedy | 42 |
Towards Posttragedy | 54 |
The Theoretical Background | 76 |
From Tragic to Antitragic Closure | 93 |
Hamlet or the SlaveMoralist Turned Ascetic Priest | 111 |
The Posttragic Vision of Romance | 129 |
From King Lear to The Two Noble Kinsmen | 141 |
Goethes Transcendence of Tragedy | 155 |
Tragedy and Psychology | 176 |
Conclusion | 189 |
NOTES | 192 |
INDEX | 216 |
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