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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
c2008
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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
Tragedy
History and criticism
B Literature, Modern History and criticism |
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| 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. Although Ibsen has been accused of being responsible for the 'death of tragedy', Ken Newton argues that Ibsen instead generates an anti-tragic perspective that had a major influence on dramatists such as Shaw and Brecht. By contrast, writers such as Hardy and Conrad, influenced by Schopenhauerean pessimism and Darwinism, attempt to modernise the concept of the tragic. Nietzsche's revisionist |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0748636730 |