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
| Subtitles: | Modern Literature & the Tragic |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
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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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The Modern
/ Literature
/ Tragedy
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| Further subjects: | B
Literature, Modern ; History and criticism
B Tragedy ; History and criticism B Tragedy History and criticism B Literature, Modern History and criticism |
| Online Access: |
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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 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 |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (179 pages), digital, PDF file(s) |
| ISBN: | 0748636749 |