Sweet Violence
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Sweet Violence

The Idea of the Tragic

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Sweet Violence

The Idea of the Tragic

About this book

Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century.

  • A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists.
  • Provides an analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the ancient world to the present day.
  • Explores the idea of the 'tragic' across all genres of writing, as well as in philosophy, politics, religion and psychology, and throughout western culture.
  • Considers the psychological, religious and socio-political implications and consequences of our fascination with the tragic.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780631233602
9780631233596
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780470765951
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature
former 
regrets 
their 
passing 
while 
the 
latter 
rejoices 
in 
it. 
Otherwise, 
left
and 
right 
are 
at 
one 
in 
their 
understanding 
of 
tragedy; 
it 
is 
just 
that 
the
left 
rejects 
it 
while 
the 
right 
endorses 
it. 
But 
this 
need 
not 
be 
the 
only
meaning 
of 
tragedy, 
and 
the 
left 
should 
not 
airily 
ditch 
the 
notion 
as 
anti-
quated 
and 
elitist. 
For 
there 
are 
other 
understandings 
of 
it, 
not 
least
of
those 
aspects 
of 
tragedy 
which 
seem 
most 
alien 
and 
obsolete, 
which 
as
we 
shall 
see 
are 
surprisingly 
close 
to 
contemporary 
radical 
concerns.
A
THEORY
IN
RUINS
22

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: A Theory in Ruins
  5. Chapter 2: The Value of Agony
  6. Chapter 3: From Hegel to Beckett
  7. Chapter 4: Heroes
  8. Chapter 5: Freedom, Fate and Justice
  9. Chapter 6: Pity, Fear and Pleasure
  10. Chapter 7: Tragedy and the Novel
  11. Chapter 8: Tragedy and Modernity
  12. Chapter 9: Demons
  13. Chapter 10: Thomas Mann’s Hedgehog
  14. Notes
  15. Index

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