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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... similar strategies in Troilus , Hamlet , and Lear . In the late plays , he also evolved a new genre , here called post - tragedy , in which the tragic sense of something conclusively accomplished through suffering is replaced by a more ...
... similar strategies in Troilus , Hamlet , and Lear . In the late plays , he also evolved a new genre , here called post - tragedy , in which the tragic sense of something conclusively accomplished through suffering is replaced by a more ...
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... similar 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 ...
... similar 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 ...
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... similar matters in real life . Finally , in Judaeo - Christian tragedy human suffering is shown to test the righteous , as in the Book of Job , to punish the wicked , as in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , or , more generally , to help unfold ...
... similar matters in real life . Finally , in Judaeo - Christian tragedy human suffering is shown to test the righteous , as in the Book of Job , to punish the wicked , as in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , or , more generally , to help unfold ...
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... similar contrasts regarding 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 ...
... similar contrasts regarding 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 ...
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... similar purpose ? The answer is by no means found in a predilection for neologisms or terminological controversy . Instead , I tend to share the view of an old Chinese sage , Chuang Tzu , that words are a means for catching ideas the ...
... similar purpose ? The answer is by no means found in a predilection for neologisms or terminological controversy . Instead , I tend to share the view of an old Chinese sage , Chuang Tzu , that words are a means for catching ideas 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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