Achilles' Choice : Examples of Modern Tragedy /

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Why, during the last two hundred years, when critical achievement in the field of tragedy has been outstanding, has there been little creative practice? David Lenson examines the work of various writers not ordinarily placed in the tragic tradition-among them, Kleist, Goethe, Melville, Yeats, and Fa...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lenson, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Princeton Essays in Literature ; 1414
Temas:
Drama > History and criticism.
Tragedy > History and criticism.
Tragedy.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama.
Absalom.
Act of Violence.
Aeschylus.
Afterword.
Ahab.
Analogy.
Anecdote.
Anthropomorphism.
Antinomy.
Antithesis.
Apollonian and Dionysian.
Arthur Schopenhauer.
Boredom.
Brute fact.
Clytemnestra.
Counterculture.
Criticism.
D. H. Lawrence.
Deal with the Devil.
Dialectic.
Dialectician.
Dichotomy.
Die Welt.
Dionysian Mysteries.
Dithyramb.
Dudley Fitts.
Electra complex.
Emblem.
Epic poetry.
Equivalents.
F. L. Lucas.
Fairy.
Falsity.
Faust.
Fiction.
Francis Fergusson.
Genre.
George Steiner.
Good and evil.
Greek chorus.
Greek mythology.
Greek tragedy.
Hamartia.
Hedonism.
Humour.
Hymn to Proserpine.
Hypocrisy.
Ideology.
Individuation.
Irony.
Irresistible force paradox.
Jacques Derrida.
Literature.
Long Day's Journey into Night.
Lurch (The Addams Family).
Lyric poetry.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer.
Moby-Dick.
Monomania.
Mourning Becomes Electra.
Name-dropping.
Nihilism.
Novella.
On the Eve.
On the Mountain.
Only Words (book).
Oreste.
Outrageous Fortune (TV series).
Paradox.
Parody.
Pessimism.
Philosopher.
Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Philosophy.
Picaresque novel.
Playwright.
Poetry.
Prose.
Pylades.
Rainer Maria Rilke.
Romanticism.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Slavery.
Soliloquy.
Sophistication.
Stanza.
Symptom.
The Birth of Tragedy.
The Case of Wagner.
The Countess Cathleen.
The Giver.
The Other Hand.
Theodore Dreiser.
Tragic hero.
Uncle Vanya.
W. B. Yeats.
Walter Kaufmann (philosopher).
William Shakespeare.
Writing.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Prefatory Note
  • Table of Contents
  • 1. Paradoxes of Tragedy
  • 2. Case of Migration through Genres
  • 3. Tragedy in Prose Fiction: Moby-Dick
  • 4. Toward Lyric Tragedy: W. B. Yeats
  • 5. Classical Analogy: Giraudoux versus Faulkner
  • 6. Choric Equivalents in Modern Drama
  • 7. The Other Tragedy
  • 8. Afterword
  • Bibliography of Works on Tragedy
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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