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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... thought . Both these assumptions , Ekbert Faas argues , are misleading . Though many modern writers refute the tragic as a limiting , if not inappropriate vision of life , such rejection is not new . It can be traced throughout literary ...
... thought . Both these assumptions , Ekbert Faas argues , are misleading . Though many modern writers refute the tragic as a limiting , if not inappropriate vision of life , such rejection is not new . It can be traced throughout literary ...
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... thought first advocated by Friedrich Nietzsche . Peckham admits that this philosopher spoke of a rebirth rather than the death of tragedy in his time . But Nietzsche , in the critic's view , used the term “ in such a profoundly new way ...
... thought first advocated by Friedrich Nietzsche . Peckham admits that this philosopher spoke of a rebirth rather than the death of tragedy in his time . But Nietzsche , in the critic's view , used the term “ in such a profoundly new way ...
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... thought . For tragedy , as Barthes recognizes , is Western man's most daring effort to justify the human dilemma under the guise of some metaphysical scheme . Without doubt our understanding of tragedy and particularly of its alleged ...
... thought . For tragedy , as Barthes recognizes , is Western man's most daring effort to justify the human dilemma under the guise of some metaphysical scheme . Without doubt our understanding of tragedy and particularly of its alleged ...
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... 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 similarities in detail . For what can be demonstrated as ...
... 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 similarities in detail . For what can be demonstrated as ...
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... thought the decline of the ancien régime , for instance , was tragic up to a certain point . As long as this régime believed in its self - justification , Marx argued , “ the error on its side was not personal but historical ...
... thought the decline of the ancien régime , for instance , was tragic up to a certain point . As long as this régime believed in its self - justification , Marx argued , “ the error on its side was not personal but historical ...
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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