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Genre/Form: | Tragedies |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Kuhns |
ISBN: | 0226458261 9780226458267 |
OCLC Number: | 22629920 |
Description: | x, 180 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: tragic experience and tragic vision: old world and new -- Loss and mourning in Aeschylus's Persians -- Anticipations of tragedy: finding and loss in The Merchant of Venice -- An intervening discussion: why we find tragic representations pleasurable -- Quest for the sublime: philosopher as tragic hero -- Modernity interprets tragic justice: reading Michael Kohlhass -- Contradiction and repression: paradox and mask in American tragedy -- Epilogue: tragic skepticism and redemption of the body -- Appendix: Leaves of grass (edition of 1855) / Walt Whitman. |
Responsibility: | Richard Kuhns. |
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