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Reader in Tragedy - An Anthology of Classical Criticism to Contemporary Theory (Paperback)
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Reader in Tragedy - An Anthology of Classical Criticism to Contemporary Theory (Paperback)
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This unique anthology presents the important historical essays on
tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into
historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span,
it traces the development of theories and philosophies of tragedy,
enabling readers to consider the ways in which different varieties
of environmentalist, feminist, leftist and postcolonial thought
have transformed the status of tragedy, and the idea of the tragic,
for recent generations of artists, critics and thinkers. Students
of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable
and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to
Freud, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and 21st century theorists. Ideas of
tragedy and the tragic have been central to the understanding of
culture for the past two millennia. Writers and thinkers from Plato
through to Martha Nussbaum have analyzed the genre of tragedy to
probe the most fundamental of questions about ethics, pleasure and
responsibility in the world. Does tragedy demand that we enjoy
witnessing the pain of others? Does it suggest that suffering is
inevitable? Is human sexuality tragic? Is tragedy even possible in
a world of rolling news on a digitally connected planet, where
atrocity and trauma from around the globe are matters of daily
information? In order to illustrate the different ways that writers
have approached the answers to such questions, this Reader collects
together a comprehensive selection of canonical writings on tragedy
from antiquity to the present day arranged in six sections, each
featuring an introduction providing concise and informed historical
and theoretical frameworks for the texts.
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