E-Book, Englisch, Band 1414, 194 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Essays in LiteraturePrinceton Legacy Library
Lenson Achilles' Choice
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7002-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Examples of Modern Tragedy
E-Book, Englisch, Band 1414, 194 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Essays in LiteraturePrinceton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7002-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Why, during the last two hundred years, when critical achievement in the field of tragedy has been outstanding, has there been little creative practice? David Lenson examines the work of various writers not ordinarily placed in the tragic tradition—among them, Kleist, Goethe, Melville, Yeats, and Faulkner—and suggests that the tradition of tragedy does continue in genres other than drama, that is, in the novel and even in lyric poetry.
The notion of tragedy's migration from one genre to others indicates, however, rather sweeping modifications in the theory of tragedy. Achilles' Choice proposes a structural model for tragic criticism that synthesizes the almost scientific theories predominant since World War II with the irrationalist theories they replaced.
Originally published in 1975.
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Frontmatter, pg. i
Prefatory Note, pg. vii
Table of Contents, pg. xi
1. Paradoxes of Tragedy, pg. 1
2. Case of Migration through Genres, pg. 24
3. Tragedy in Prose Fiction: Moby-Dick, pg. 40
4. Toward Lyric Tragedy: W. B. Yeats, pg. 65
5. Classical Analogy: Giraudoux versus Faulkner, pg. 98
6. Choric Equivalents in Modern Drama, pg. 117
7. The Other Tragedy, pg. 137
8. Afterword, pg. 159
Bibliography of Works on Tragedy, pg. 173
Index, pg. 175
