Modern literature and the tragic /

This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy. Although Ibsen has been accused of being responsible for the 'death of tragedy'...

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Tác giả chính: Newton, K. M.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008.
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Mục lục:
  • Ibsen's Ghosts and the rejection of the tragic
  • Anti-tragic drama after Ibsen
  • Chekhov and the tragic
  • The return of the tragic in fiction
  • Nietzsche and the redefining of the tragic
  • The "tragico-dionysian" and D.H. Lawrence
  • The theatre of the absurd and the tragic
  • The tragic, pragmatism, and the postmodern.