Modern Literature and the Tragic.
Title:
Modern Literature and the Tragic.
Author:
Newton, K. M.
ISBN:
9780748636747
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (193 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ibsen's Ghosts and the Rejection of the Tragic -- 2. Anti-Tragic Drama after Ibsen -- 3. Chekhov and the Tragic -- 4. The Return of the Tragic in Fiction -- 5. Nietzsche and the Redefining of the Tragic -- 6. The 'Tragico-Dionysian' and D. H. Lawrence -- 7. The Theatre of the Absurd and the Tragic -- 8. The Tragic, Pragmatism and the Postmodern -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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