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Tragic themes in Western literature / seven essays by Bernard Knox [and others] Edited with an introduction by Cleanth Brooks.

LIBRA PN1892 .B76 1956
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English
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Physical Description:
178 pages ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1956.
Contents:
  • Introduction by Cleanth Brooks
  • Sophocles' Oedipus by Bernard Knox
  • The world of Hamlet by Maynard Mack
  • Samson Agonistes by Chauncey B. Tinker
  • The tragedy of passion, Racine's Phè€dre by Henri Peyre
  • The tragic world of the Karamazovs by Richard B. Sewall
  • Tragedy of idealism, Henrik Ibsen by Konstantin Reichardt
  • The saint as tragic hero, Saint Joan and Murder in the Cathedral by Louis L. Martz.
Notes:
  • First published, March, 1955. Second printing, May, 1955. Third printing, March, 1956.
  • Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 177-178).
OCLC:
259244195

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