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Tragedy - Longman Critical Readers John Drakakis 1st edition
Tragedy - Longman Critical Readers
John Drakakis
This wide-ranging and unique collection of documents on one of the most enduring of literary genres, Tragedy, offers a radical revaluation of its significance in the light of the critical attention that it has received during the past one-hundred and fifty years. The foundations of much contemporary thinking about Tragedy are to be found in the writings of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard; in addition, the dialectical tradition emanating from Marxism, and the psycho-analytical writings of Freud, have extended significantly the horizons of the subject.
With the explosion of interest in the areas of post-structuralism, sociology of culture, social anthropology, feminism, deconstruction, and the study of ritual, new questions are being asked about this persistent artistic exploration of human experience. This book seeks to represent a full selection of these divergent interests, in a series of substantial extracts which display the continuing richness of the debate about a genre which has provoked, and challenged categorical discussion since the appearance of Aristotle's Poetics.
376 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 19, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138161726 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 376 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Drakakis, John |
| Editor | Liebler, Naomi Conn |
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