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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... theatre of cruelty and of the absurd , 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 ...
... theatre of cruelty and of the absurd , 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 ...
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... 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 page intentionally left blank Tragedy and After This page ix Contents.
... 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 page intentionally left blank Tragedy and After This page ix Contents.
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... theatre . Who , then , in some twenty or thirty years from now , will be remembered as the more " truly twentieth- century man , ” Ionesco or Arthur Miller ? Whatever the answer , we already know that Death of a Salesman has affected ...
... theatre . Who , then , in some twenty or thirty years from now , will be remembered as the more " truly twentieth- century man , ” Ionesco or Arthur Miller ? Whatever the answer , we already know that Death of a Salesman has affected ...
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... theatre of the absurd from their influence . Thought - provoking as attempts to com- pare , say , King Lear with Beckett's Endgame or Chekhov's The Seagull ' may be in general , they tend to break down in trying to establish ...
... theatre of the absurd from their influence . Thought - provoking as attempts to com- pare , say , King Lear with Beckett's Endgame or Chekhov's The Seagull ' may be in general , they tend to break down in trying to establish ...
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... theatre of the irrational and absurd which , along with the identity of character , plot , and motivation , would abandon the notion of tragedy - " the tragic's turning comic , the comic is tragic , and life's getting more cheerful ...
... theatre of the irrational and absurd which , along with the identity of character , plot , and motivation , would abandon the notion of tragedy - " the tragic's turning comic , the comic is tragic , and life's getting more cheerful ...
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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