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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... God was a hypothesis of which the rational mind had no further need ; God took the great astronomer at his word . But tragedy is that form of art which requires the intolerable burden of God's presence . It is now dead because His ...
... God was a hypothesis of which the rational mind had no further need ; God took the great astronomer at his word . But tragedy is that form of art which requires the intolerable burden of God's presence . It is now dead because His ...
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... gods , / They kill us for their sport " ( IV.i ) may well remind us of Godot in Beckett's play or of Apollo in Euripides ' Orestes . For the affinity here stems not from an accidentally shared oddity of incident or characterization ...
... gods , / They kill us for their sport " ( IV.i ) may well remind us of Godot in Beckett's play or of Apollo in Euripides ' Orestes . For the affinity here stems not from an accidentally shared oddity of incident or characterization ...
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... god of Delphi , orders Orestes to kill his mother in retribution : He said that else I must myself pay penalty with my own life , and suffer much sad punishment . ( Libation Bearers 276-7 ) Orestes , despite some hesitation , fulfils ...
... god of Delphi , orders Orestes to kill his mother in retribution : He said that else I must myself pay penalty with my own life , and suffer much sad punishment . ( Libation Bearers 276-7 ) Orestes , despite some hesitation , fulfils ...
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... god who will persuade the hero to do otherwise . The command of Vishnu , supreme Hindu divinity , who has taken human shape as Arjuna's charioteer , is as unequivocal and insistent as Apollo's : Arise , fight , and kill . The Supreme ...
... god who will persuade the hero to do otherwise . The command of Vishnu , supreme Hindu divinity , who has taken human shape as Arjuna's charioteer , is as unequivocal and insistent as Apollo's : Arise , fight , and kill . The Supreme ...
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... God's wager with Satan gives him the chance to prove himself righteous . The negative counterpart of this divine justice is shown in most of the de casibus tradition21 or in a tragedy like Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , the damnation of ...
... God's wager with Satan gives him the chance to prove himself righteous . The negative counterpart of this divine justice is shown in most of the de casibus tradition21 or in a tragedy like Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , the damnation of ...
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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