Jennifer Wallace (Cambridge Peterhouse)

The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This introduction offers an overview of tragic drama from the ancient Greeks, through Shakespeare, Racine and Ibsen, and to the present day. It explores the definition of 'tragedy', as it has been discussed by philosophers, and includes chapters on the Greeks, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, post-colonial drama, and Beckett.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780521671491
• ISBN-10: 0521671493
• Artikelnr.: 21275219

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Wallace is Fellow, lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Approaching the subject
2. Tragic drama: 2.1. The Greeks
2.2. Seneca and Racine
2.3. Shakespeare
2.4. Romantic tragedy: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov
2.5. American tragedy
2.6. Postcolonial tragedy
2.7. Beckett
Case studies 1: Physical violence and dismemberment
Case studies 2: Language
3. Tragic theory: 3.1. Aristotle
3.2. Hegel
3.3. Nietzsche
3.4. Kierkegaard
3.5. Camus
3.6. Girard
Case studies 1: Fate
Case studies 2: Politics
Case studies 3: Gender
4. Non-dramatic tragedy: 4.1. Visual culture
4.2. Novel
4.3. Film
4.4. Psychoanalysis
4.5. Theology
5. Coda: Tragic sites
Bibliography.

Rezensionen

'A lucid, intelligent, wide-ranging introduction to a subject of growing centrality in both criticism and political life' Professor Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester