Tragic Imagination - The Literary Agenda

Zusatztext The Tragic Imagination proves rewarding. Williams offers intelligent - and not straighforwardly theological - readings of Madea, Antigone, King Lear, Othello, and modern plays by Sarah Kane and Edward Bond. Informationen zum Autor Rowan Williams is Master at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Klappentext Rowan Williams explores the definition of the tragic as a mode of narrative, in this short and thought-provoking volume. He turns to subjects including the role of irony in tragedy, the relationship between tragedy and political as well as religious rhetoric, common ground between tragedy and comedy, and the complex place of theology in the debate. Zusammenfassung Rowan Williams explores the definition of the tragic as a mode of narrative, in this short and thought-provoking volume. He turns to subjects including the role of irony in tragedy, the relationship between tragedy and political as well as religious rhetoric, common ground between tragedy and comedy, and the complex place of theology in the debate. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Handling danger: the political roots of tragedy 2: Acknowledgement and hiddenness: what does tragedy make us know? 3: Reconciliation and its discontents: thinking with Hegel 4: Absolute tragedy and moral extremity 5: Tragedy against pessimism: religious discourse and tragic drama 6: Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Rowan Williams, Rowan (Magdalene College Williams
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2016
• EAN: 9780198736417
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873641-7
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: The Literary Agenda
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, RELIGION / Philosophy, Religion: general, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary theory, Philosophy of religion