The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Wallace is Fellow, lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. Klappentext An introductory study into tragedy in drama and literature! and in the real world. Zusammenfassung This introduction offers an overview of tragic drama from the ancient Greeks! through Shakespeare! Racine and Ibsen! and to the present day. It explores the definition of 'tragedy'! as it has been discussed by philosophers! and includes chapters on the Greeks! Shakespeare! Ibsen! Chekhov! post-colonial drama! and Beckett. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Approaching the subject; 2. Tragic drama: 2.1. The Greeks; 2.2. Seneca and Racine; 2.3. Shakespeare; 2.4. Romantic tragedy: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov; 2.5. American tragedy; 2.6. Postcolonial tragedy; 2.7. Beckett; Case studies 1: Physical violence and dismemberment; Case studies 2: Language; 3. Tragic theory: 3.1. Aristotle; 3.2. Hegel; 3.3. Nietzsche; 3.4. Kierkegaard; 3.5. Camus; 3.6. Girard; Case studies 1: Fate; Case studies 2: Politics; Case studies 3: Gender; 4. Non-dramatic tragedy: 4.1. Visual culture; 4.2. Novel; 4.3. Film; 4.4. Psychoanalysis; 4.5. Theology; 5. Coda: Tragic sites; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Wallace, Jennifer (Peterhouse Wallace
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2007
• EAN: 9780521671491
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67149-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge introduction to; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge introduction to
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet