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Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Damrosch Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense


1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6800-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
 Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

ISBN: 978-1-4008-6800-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
 Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

Tragedy in the eighteenth century is often said to have expired or been deflected into nondramatic forms like history and satire, and to have survived mainly as a "tragic sense" in writers like Samuel Johnson. Leopold Damrosch shows that many readers were still capable of an imaginative response to tragedy. In Johnson, however, moral and aesthetic assumptions limited his ability to appreciate or create tragedy, despite a deep understanding of human suffering. This limitation, Mr. Damrosch argues, derived partly from his Christian belief, and more largely from a view of reality that did not allow exclusive focus on its tragic aspects.

The author discusses Irene, The vanity of Human Wishes, and Johnson's criticism of tragedy, particularly that of Shakespeare. A Final chapter places Johnson's view in the context of modern theories.

Originally published in 1972.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Damrosch, Leopold

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Weitere Infos & Material

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xi
Chapter 1. Introduction, pg. 3
Chapter 2. Tragic Theory and Its Limitations, pg. 10
CHAPTER 3. Tragedy Perceived: Other Evidence, pg. 28
CHAPTER 4. Johnson's Tragic Sense of Life, pg. 59
CHAPTER 5. Irene, pg. 109
CHAPTER 6. The Vanity of Human Wishes, pg. 139
CHAPTER 7. A Johnsonian Theory of Tragedy, pg. 163
CHAPTER 8. Shakespeare, pg. 200
CHAPTER 9. Conclusion, pg. 243
APPENDIX. A Note on Sources, pg. 256
INDEX, pg. 261

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