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Author : Cleanth Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Drama
ISBN : OCLC:28165900
Author : Cleanth Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Drama
ISBN : OCLC:1014764949
Author : C. BROOKS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120814750
Author : Cleanth Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Drama
ISBN : OCLC:310773102
Author : Cleanth Brooks,Maynard Mack,Chauncey Brewster Tinker,Henri Peyre,Richard Benson Sewall,Konstantin Reichardt,Louis Lohr Martz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:800518796
Author : Cleanth Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : OCLC:20573141
Author : Cleanth Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:245672629
Author : Richard Gaskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351017015
This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing of a protagonist’s suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognized by recent critics, traditional tragedy represents suffering as incurred by avoidable and culpable mistakes of a cognitive nature. Moral redress operates in the first instance at the level of the individual agent. Linguistic redress, by contrast, operates at a higher level of generality, namely at the level of the community: its fundamental motor is the sheer expressibility of suffering in words. Against many writers on tragedy, Gaskin argues that language is competent to express pain and suffering, and that tragic literature has that expression as one its principal purposes. The definition of tragic literature in this book is expanded to include more than stage drama: the treatment stretches from the Classical and Medieval periods through to the early twentieth century. There is a special focus on Sophocles, but Gaskin takes account of most other major tragic authors in the European tradition, including Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, Seneca, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Büchner, Ibsen, Hardy, Kafka, and Mann; lesser-known areas, such as Renaissance neo-Latin tragedy, are also covered. Among theorists of tragedy, Gaskin concentrates on Aristotle and Bradley; but the contributions of numerous contemporary commentators are also assessed. Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective offers a new and genuinely interdisciplinary perspective on tragedy that will be of considerable interest both to philosophers of literature and to literary critics.
Author : Cleanth Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0758101368
Author : K. M. Newton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748636747
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 interpretation of the tragic influenced writers who either take pessimism or the 'Dionysian' commitment to life to an extreme, as in Strindberg and D. H. Lawrence. Different views emerge in the period following the second world war with the 'Theatre of the Absurd' and postmodern anti-foundationalism.
Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004453678
The spirited narration of the scenes and the themes of recognition and revelation from Homer and Genesis to the major classical, Medieval, and modern writers: anagnorisis as the living, moving encounter between two human beings.
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470765951
Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists. Provides an analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the ancient world to the present day. Explores the idea of the 'tragic' across all genres of writing, as well as in philosophy, politics, religion and psychology, and throughout western culture. Considers the psychological, religious and socio-political implications and consequences of our fascination with the tragic.
Author : Blair Hoxby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191065996
Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain that in a true tragedy, fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with spiritual consolation. Yet far from being a timeless truth, this account of tragedy only emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. What Was Tragedy? demonstrates that this account of the tragic, which has been hegemonic from the early nineteenth century to the present despite all the twists and turns of critical fashion in the twentieth century, obscured an earlier poetics of tragedy that evolved from 1515 to 1795. By reconstructing that poetics, Blair Hoxby makes sense of plays that are "merely pathetic, not truly tragic," of operas with happy endings, of Christian tragedies, and of other plays that advertised themselves as tragedies to early modern audiences and yet have subsequently been denied the palm of tragedy by critics. In doing so, Hoxby not only illuminates masterpieces by Shakespeare, Calderón, Corneille, Racine, Milton, and Mozart, he also revivifies a vast repertoire of tragic drama and opera that has been relegated to obscurity by critical developments since 1800. He suggests how many of these plays might be reclaimed as living works of theater. And by reconstructing a lost conception of tragedy both ancient and modern, he illuminates the hidden assumptions and peculiar blind-spots of the idealist critical tradition that runs from Schelling, Schlegel, and Hegel, through Wagner, Nietzsche, and Freud, up to modern post-structuralism.
Author : Roy Arthur Swanson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0820478806
In the course of an academic career spanning five decades, Professor Roy Arthur Swanson established himself as an internationally recognized scholar and outstanding teacher in Classics and literary studies. He is the author of five books and the co-author of three books, and has been active as an editor and contributor of articles and reviews to scholarly publications. Twelve former students, colleagues, and friends have contributed papers in honor of Professor Swanson's seventy-fifth birthday. These papers all touch on subjects close to his heart, ranging from Greek, Roman, Italian, Scandinavian, and German literary studies to modern pop culture.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802092090
In 1933, Northrop Frye was a recent university graduate, beginning to learn his craft as a literary essayist. By 1963, with the publication of The Educated Imagination, he had become an international academic celebrity. In the intervening three decades, Frye wrote widely and prodigiously, but it is in the papers and lectures collected in this installment of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye, that the genesis of a distinguished literary critic can be seen. Here is Frye tracing the first outlines of a literary cosmology that would culminate in The Anatomy of Criticism (1958) and shapeThe Great Code (1982) and Words with Power (1990). At the same time that Frye garnered such international acclaim, he was also a working university teacher, lecturing in the University of Toronto's English Language and Literature program. In her lively introduction, Germaine Warkentin links Frye's evolution as a critic with his love of music, his passionate concern for his students, and his growing professional ambition. The writings included in this volume show how Frye integrated ideas into the work that would consolidate the fame that Fearful Symmetry (1947) had first established.
