Modern literature and the tragic
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| Sprache: | English |
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Edinburgh University Press
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. Although Ibsen has been accused of being responsible for the 'death of tragedy', Ken Newton argues that Ibsen instead generated an anti-tragic perspective that had a major influence on dramatists such as Shaw and Brecht Ibsen's Ghosts and the rejection of the tragic -- Anti-tragic drama after Ibsen -- Chekhov and the tragic -- The return of the tragic in fiction -- Nietzsche and the redefining of the tragic -- The "tragico-dionysian" and D.H. Lawrence -- The theatre of the absurd and the tragic -- The tragic, pragmatism, and the postmodern |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource ([vii], 179 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0748636749 9780748636730 9780748636747 |