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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... reasons , denounces the tragic as a " falsification of life . " 4 For tragedy , in Barthes's view , " is nothing but a means to absorb the human dilemma , to subsume and hence to justify it under some form of necessity , wisdom or ...
... reasons , denounces the tragic as a " falsification of life . " 4 For tragedy , in Barthes's view , " is nothing but a means to absorb the human dilemma , to subsume and hence to justify it under some form of necessity , wisdom or ...
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... reasons to be spelled out in more detail later , " tragic " as used in the following pages denotes a purposive rather than a pessimistic vision of life . Even suffering and death , in the tragic perspective , are shown somehow to serve ...
... reasons to be spelled out in more detail later , " tragic " as used in the following pages denotes a purposive rather than a pessimistic vision of life . Even suffering and death , in the tragic perspective , are shown somehow to serve ...
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... reason for using a neutral term like anti - tragic instead of one as heavily charged with other connotations as absurd . My intention is neither to make Euripides , Shakespeare , and Goethe our contemporaries nor , worse , to derive the ...
... reason for using a neutral term like anti - tragic instead of one as heavily charged with other connotations as absurd . My intention is neither to make Euripides , Shakespeare , and Goethe our contemporaries nor , worse , to derive the ...
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... reason , have stressed the parallels between , for example , Prometheus Bound and the Book of Job , some of them concluding that the Old Testament prophet may even have drawn his inspiration from the Greek playwright.20 However much ...
... reason , have stressed the parallels between , for example , Prometheus Bound and the Book of Job , some of them concluding that the Old Testament prophet may even have drawn his inspiration from the Greek playwright.20 However much ...
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... reason for being labelled tragic ? Or had not the Marxists better abandon all attempts to make the tragic one of their terms ? Bertolt Brecht reached that very conclusion , but not before falling victim to some of the contradictions ...
... reason for being labelled tragic ? Or had not the Marxists better abandon all attempts to make the tragic one of their terms ? Bertolt Brecht reached that very conclusion , but not before falling victim to some of the contradictions ...
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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