Tragedy Contributor(s): Drakakis, John (Author), Liebler, Naomi Conn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0582209978 ISBN-13: 9780582209978 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $65.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
Dewey: 809.251 |
LCCN: 00000000 |
Series: Longman Critical Readers |
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.43" W x 8.56" (1.03 lbs) 376 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This wide-ranging and unique collection of documents on one of the most enduring of literary genres, Tragedy, offers a radical revaluation of its significance in the light of the critical attention that it has received during the past one-hundred and fifty years. The foundations of much contemporary thinking about Tragedy are to be found in the writings of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard; in addition, the dialectical tradition emanating from Marxism, and the psycho-analytical writings of Freud, have extended significantly the horizons of the subject. With the explosion of interest in the areas of post-structuralism, sociology of culture, social anthropology, feminism, deconstruction, and the study of ritual, new questions are being asked about this persistent artistic exploration of human experience. This book seeks to represent a full selection of these divergent interests, in a series of substantial extracts which display the continuing richness of the debate about a genre which has provoked, and challenged categorical discussion since the appearance of Aristotle's Poetics. |