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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Newton, K.M. Modern literature and the tragic. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008 (OCoLC)226360320 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
K M Newton |
| ISBN: | 9780748636747 0748636749 |
| OCLC Number: | 266932500 |
| Description: | 1 online resource ([vii], 179 p.) |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | K.M. Newton. |
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Abstract:
This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. Although Ibsen has been accused of being responsible for the 'death of tragedy', Ken Newton argues that Ibsen instead generated an anti-tragic perspective that had a major influence on dramatists such as Shaw and Brecht.
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- Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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- Tragedy -- History and criticism.
- Tragic, The, in literature.
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
- Tragödie.
- Literatur.
- Tragik.