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| Introduction : reading Modern tragedy in the twenty-first century | 9 | |
| Pt. 1 | Tragic ideas | |
| 1 | Tragedy and experience | 33 |
| 2 | Tragedy and the tradition | 37 |
| 3 | Tragedy and contemporary ideas | 69 |
| 4 | Tragedy and revolution | 87 |
| 5 | Continuity | 109 |
| Pt. 2 | Modern tragic literature | |
| 1 | From hero to victim : the making of liberal tragedy, to Ibsen and Miller | 113 |
| 2 | Private tragedy : Strindberg, O'Neill, Tennessee Williams | 133 |
| 3 | Social and personal tragedy : Tolstoy and Lawrence | 149 |
| 4 | Tragic deadlock and stalemate : Chekhov, Pirandello, Ionesco, Beckett | 169 |
| 5 | Tragic resignation and sacrifice : Eliot and Pasternak | 189 |
| 6 | Tragic despair and revolt : Camus and Sartre | 209 |
| 7 | A rejection of tragedy : Brecht | 227 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Julian Strahan
reviewed Modern Tragedy on May 24, 2011
Modern Tragedy
This is a nice short book on the question of whether it is possible to produce tragedy in the modern era, or is it a relic of ancient Greece and Elizabethan England. The author makes an important contribution to literary theory in establishing tragedy as a culturally determined genre (i.e., something doesn't have to be a play to be a tragedy). The trouble I have is that ultimately his definition for modern tragedy is so elastic as to not be very useful. Baby Boomers will appreciate the book more than younger generations (the book dates from 1966) because it attempts to fit the revolutionary ethos of the 1930s-1960s into a tragic mold.
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