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.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Reviews: | Modern Literature and the Tragic. By K.M. Newton (2010) (Taylor, T. Kevin)
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| Further subjects: | B
Literature, Modern ; History and criticism
B Tragedy ; History and criticism B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780748636730 |
| Summary: | 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. COVER -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ibsen's Ghosts and the Rejection of the Tragic -- 2. Anti-Tragic Drama after Ibsen -- 3. Chekhov and the Tragic -- 4. The Return of the Tragic in Fiction -- 5. Nietzsche and the Redefining of the Tragic -- 6. The 'Tragico-Dionysian' and D. H. Lawrence -- 7. The Theatre of the Absurd and the Tragic -- 8. The Tragic, Pragmatism and the Postmodern -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 0748636749 |