Tragedy (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Longman
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Longman Critical Readers
Release date:	April 1998
First published:	1998
Authors:	John Drakakis • Naomi Conn Liebler
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-0-582-20997-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-582-20997-8
Barcode:	9780582209978

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