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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... and death , however terrifying , have a function in an ultimately purposive scheme of things . Only detailed interpretation can - show which specific dramaturgical techniques communicate this tragic vision s Introduction.
... and death , however terrifying , have a function in an ultimately purposive scheme of things . Only detailed interpretation can - show which specific dramaturgical techniques communicate this tragic vision s Introduction.
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... things set in their teleological order . It confuses and shocks , where its counterpart provides us with cathartic or otherwise meaningful effects . It tends to portray life in its situational and psychological singularity rather than ...
... things set in their teleological order . It confuses and shocks , where its counterpart provides us with cathartic or otherwise meaningful effects . It tends to portray life in its situational and psychological singularity rather than ...
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... things not as they are but as they ought to be.12 The poet , in other words , should in some way or other interpret , make sense of things . While tragedy , then , is basically explanatory , anti- and post - tragedy are exploratory ...
... things not as they are but as they ought to be.12 The poet , in other words , should in some way or other interpret , make sense of things . While tragedy , then , is basically explanatory , anti- and post - tragedy are exploratory ...
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... thing is “ to endeavour always after the necessary or the probable ; so that whenever such - and - such a personage says or does such - and - such a thing , it shall be the necessary or probable outcome of his character ; and whenever ...
... thing is “ to endeavour always after the necessary or the probable ; so that whenever such - and - such a personage says or does such - and - such a thing , it shall be the necessary or probable outcome of his character ; and whenever ...
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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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