Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester)

Sweet Violence

The Idea of the Tragic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world s finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists.

Provides an analytical account of the concept of tragedy from its origins in the ancient world to the present day.

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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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780631233602
• ISBN-10: 0631233601
• Artikelnr.: 10975956

Autorenporträt

Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. His numerous works include The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), Literary Theory: An Introduction (second edition, 1996), The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth Century Ireland (1999), and The Idea of Culture (2000), all published by Blackwell, as are his dramatic writings, St Oscar and Other Plays (1997), and the Eagleton Reader (1997) edited by Stephen Regan. His memoir The Gatekeeper was published in 2002.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"Terry Eagleton's titanic tryst with the Tragic muse crowns acareer devoted to exploring the ideology of aesthetic and politicalform ... This is a brave and bracing book that bridgesEagleton's secular, socialist ideals with his metaphysicaland theological aspirations: a remarkable comedic spirit hoversover this passionate reflection on the temper of tragedy." HomiK. Bhabha, Harvard University

"Sweet Violence has all the characteristics that compelthe reader, however tested and exasperated, to admire its author.It is long, discursive, packed with illustrations drawn fromenormous reading in world literature, perverse and even, quiteoften, funny." New York Times

"Eagleton has raised a banner for a terrifying but beautiful newseriousness in the arts, directly drawn from our contemporaryworld. It is an extraordinary achievement and ... an inspiration."The Guardian

"The best book Terry Eagleton has yet written." EnglishStudies