Sweet violence
the idea of the tragic
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Word Count
82,000 words, Guess
Page Count
328 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3551964M
- ISBN-100631233598
- OCLC Control Number51717444
- Internet Archivesweetviolenceide0000eagl
- Library of Congress Control Number2002001533
and 2 more
- LibraryThing330309
- Goodreads4714106
Classifications
- DDC809/.9162
- LCCPN56.T68 E18 2003
- LCCBH301.T7
Description
In this dazzling book Terry Eagleton provides a comprehensive study of tragedy, all the way from Aeschylus to Edward Albee, dealing with both theory and practice, and moving between ideas of tragedy and analyses of particular works and authors. This amazing tour de force steps out beyond the stage to reflect not only on tragic art but also on real-life tragedy. It explores the idea of the tragic in the novel, examining such writers as Melville, Hawthorne, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Manzoni, Goethe and Mann, as well as English novelists. -- from back cover.
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