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Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. * * 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. * Explores the idea of the 'tragic' across all genres of writing, as well as in philosophy, politics, religion and psychology, and throughout western culture. * Considers the…mehr

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Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. * * 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. * Explores the idea of the 'tragic' across all genres of writing, as well as in philosophy, politics, religion and psychology, and throughout western culture. * Considers the psychological, religious and socio-political implications and consequences of our fascination with the tragic.

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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.
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"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