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In this dazzling book Terry Eagleton provides a comprehensive study of tragedy, all the way from Aeschylus to Edward Albee, dealing with both theory and practice, and moving between ideas of tragedy and analyses of particular works and authors. This amazing tour-de-force steps out beyond the stage to reflect not only on tragic art but also on real-life tragedy. It explores the idea of the tragic in the novel, examining such writers as Melville, Hawthorne, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Manzoni, Goethe and Mann, as well as English novelists.
With his characteristic brilliance and inventiveness of mind, Eagleton weaves together literature, philosophy, ethics, theology, and political theory. In so doing he makes a major political-philosophical statement drawn from a startling range of Western thought, in the writings of Plato, St Paul, St Augustine, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Sartre and others.
This book takes serious issue with the idea of 'the death of tragedy', and gives a comprehensive survey of definitions of tragedy itself, arguing a radical and controversial case.
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- Title Sweet Violence
- Author Terry Eagleton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 348
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA
- Date 2002-09-27
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780631233602 / 0631233601
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.02 x 1.02 in (23.27 x 15.29 x 2.59 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Tragic, The, in literature, Tragedy - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002001533
- Dewey Decimal Code 809
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Citations
- Choice, 03/01/2003, Page 1177
- New York Times, 12/29/2002, Page 10
- Publishers Weekly, 08/19/2002, Page 80
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