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The strangeness of tragedy /
This book reads tragedy as a genre in which the protagonist is estranged from the world around him, and, displaced in time, space, and language, comes to inhabit a milieu which is no longer shared by other characters. This alienation from others also entails a decomposition of the integrity of the i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book reads tragedy as a genre in which the protagonist is estranged from the world around him, and, displaced in time, space, and language, comes to inhabit a milieu which is no longer shared by other characters. This alienation from others also entails a decomposition of the integrity of the individual, which is often seen in tragedy's uncertainty about the protagonists' autonomy: do they act, or do the gods act through them? Where are the boundaries of the self, and theboundaries of the human? After an introductory essay exploring the theatrical and linguistic means by which the protago. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 203 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191571480 0191571482 9780191702099 0191702099 9786612354748 6612354747 1282354744 9781282354746 |