Modern Literature And The Tragic
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Modern Literature and the Tragic
Author | : K. M. Newton |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008-06-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780748636747 |
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This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy. Although Ibsen has been accused of being responsible for the 'death of tragedy', Ken Newton argues that Ibsen instead generates an anti-tragic perspective that had a major influence on dramatists such as Shaw and Brecht. By contrast, writers such as Hardy and Conrad, influenced by Schopenhauerean pessimism and Darwinism, attempt to modernise the concept of the tragic. Nietzsche's revisionist interpretation of the tragic influenced writers who either take pessimism or the 'Dionysian' commitment to life to an extreme, as in Strindberg and D. H. Lawrence. Different views emerge in the period following the second world war with the 'Theatre of the Absurd' and postmodern anti-foundationalism.
Tragedy and the Modernist Novel
Author | : Manya Lempert |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2020-09-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781108496025 |
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This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in British and European modernism, philosophy, science and literature, and classical reception studies. It will also interest scholars studying the novel or tragedy more generally.
Modern Tragedy
Author | : Raymond Williams |
Publsiher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Tragic Modernities
Author | : Miriam Leonard |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674743939 |
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Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.
Modern Tragedy
Author | : Raymond Williams |
Publsiher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2006-02-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781551116341 |
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Modern Tragedy, first published in 1966, is a study of the ideas and ideologies which have influenced the production and analysis of tragedy. Williams sees tragedy both in terms of literary tradition and in relation to the tragedies of modern society, of revolution and disorder, and of individual experience. Modern Tragedy is available only in this Broadview Encore Edition, now edited and with a critical introduction by Pamela McCallum.
The Redemption of Tragedy
Author | : Katherine T. Brueck |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 079142281X |
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Simone Weil's supernaturalist interpretations of tragedy challenge not only the philosophical skepticism but also the religious rationalism characteristic of the modern age. This book boldly points out a supernaturalist alternative to contemporary, post-structuralist literary theory. This study of classical tragic drama offers a sacralizing impetus to secular discussions of literature. The book's Platonic premises and its grounding in the transcendental outlook of the religious traditions furnish a sacred illumination. Religious mystery and the cross of Christ both overshadow and deepen philosophical approaches to literary criticism, including theories of tragedy. Simone Weil's conception of tragic art, rooted in a mystical Christian metaphysics, offers original insight into the nature of tragedy. In contradiction of the prevailing secular outlook, Weil regards classical tragedy as a sacred art form. Tragic masterpieces evoke not the chaotic or irrational, as modernist interpreters hold, but rather a good which is absolute
Modern European Tragedy
Author | : Annamaria Cascetta |
Publsiher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781783081615 |
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The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘Modern European Tragedy’ examines the consciousness of this era, drawing a picture of the development of the tragic through an in-depth analysis of some of the twentieth century’s most outstanding texts.
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature
Author | : Ato Quayson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2021-01-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108830980 |
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Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.