Modern literature and the tragic

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

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Subtitles:Modern Literature & the Tragic
Main Author: Newton, K. M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2008
In:Year: 2008
Reviews:Modern Literature and the Tragic. By K.M. Newton (2010) (Taylor, T. Kevin)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B The Modern / Literature / Tragedy
Further subjects:B Literature, Modern ; History and criticism
B Tragedy ; History and criticism
B Tragedy History and criticism
B Literature, Modern History and criticism
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Parallel Edition:Print version: 9780748636730
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Summary: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
Ibsen's Ghosts and the rejection of the tragic -- Anti-tragic drama after Ibsen -- Chekhov and the tragic -- The return of the tragic in fiction -- Nietzsche and the redefining of the tragic -- The "tragico-dionysian" and D.H. Lawrence -- The theatre of the absurd and the tragic -- The tragic, pragmatism, and the postmodern
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ISBN:0748636749