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Modern literature and the tragic / K.M. Newton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newton, K. M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Tragedy--History and criticism.
- Tragedy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (179 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5208-6
- 1-281-78593-8
- 9786611785932
- 0-7486-3674-9
- OCLC:
- 437233424
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