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Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic ISBN: 0631233601 ISBN13: 9780631233602 Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic By: Terry Eagleton Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Format: Paperback Our Price: 17.99 Discount: 10% RRP: 19.99

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.


Contents:

Acknowledgements.Introduction.1

A Theory in Ruins.2

The Value of Agony.3

From Hegel to Beckett.4

Heroes.5

Freedom, Fate and Justice.6

Pity, Fear and Pleasure.7

Tragedy and the Novel.8

Tragedy and Modernity.9 Demons.10

Thomas Mann's Hedgehog

 Notes

Index.


Brief Description:

Providing a comprehensive study of tragedy, this book deals with both theory and practice. 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.

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