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Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature - A Philosophical Perspective (Hardcover)
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Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature - A Philosophical Perspective (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Aesthetics
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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,
Buchner, 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.
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