What was tragedy? : theory and the early modern canon / Blair Hoxby.
What was tragedy? : theory and the early modern canon / Blair Hoxby.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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G 2016/3031
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English
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x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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unmediated
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volume
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I. The philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy -- 1. Our tragic culture -- The early modern conception of tragedy -- The philosophy of the tragic -- Literary form, the philosophy of history, and the canon -- Tragedy born anew from the spirit of music? -- Decadence and primitivism -- The...
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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First edition.
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England
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2015.
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Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain that in a true tragedy, fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with spiritual consolation. Yet far from being a timeless truth, this account of tragedy only...
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What was tragedy? : theory and the early modern canon / Blair Hoxby.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-353) and index.
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G 2016/3031
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74VKVP0b5qpb
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0198749163
9780198749165
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809.2512
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991023996210202626
