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Tragedy and Tragic Theory - An Analytical Guide (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,098
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Tragedy and Tragic Theory - An Analytical Guide (Hardcover, New): Richard Hudson Palmer

Tragedy and Tragic Theory - An Analytical Guide (Hardcover, New)

Richard Hudson Palmer

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Comprehending tragedy has been a major philosophical and critical preoccupation in Western thought. Whether concerned with the generic problem of definition or with tragedy in the context of specific writers or periods, books with multiple and often conflicting perspectives abound. In an effort to bring order to the explanations over two millennia, "Tragedy and Tragic Theory" lucidly analyzes the principal ideas about tragedy from Plato to the present.

Critically surveying the similarities and differences among major theories, Palmer analyzes features associated with tragedy, such as the tragic hero, katharsis, and self-recognition; develops a working definition of tragedy; and applies these ideas to a sampling of plays that present special interpretive problems. He incorporates and explores the ideas of such eminent thinkers as Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzche, Schopenhauer, Schiller, Kierkegaard, and Freud, as well as contemporary theorists, who also appear with biographical blurbs in an appendix to the volume along with an extensive bibliography. By examining both tragedy and the theoretical responses to tragedy, this study demonstrates that the definition of tragedy depends on the meaning perceived by an audience rather than on a structured stimulus independent of response; yet, it does not abandon the possibility of isolating fixed defining characteristics. The audience response approach provides a framework for analyzing earlier theories. Systematically developed, the study is equally valuable as a text in drama and criticism or as a convenient reference tool to drama theory and theorists.

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Imprint: Greenwood Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 1992
First published: June 1992
Authors: Richard Hudson Palmer
Dimensions: 240 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 252
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28203-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
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LSN: 0-313-28203-X
Barcode: 9780313282034

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