Title Modern literature and the tragic / K.M. Newton

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource ([vii], 179 pages) Contents Ibsen's Ghosts and the rejection of the tragic -- Anti-tragic drama after Ibsen -- Chekhov and the tragic -- The return of the tragic in fiction -- Nietzsche and the redefining of the tragic -- The "tragico-dionysian" and D.H. Lawrence -- The theatre of the absurd and the tragic -- The tragic, pragmatism, and the postmodern Summary 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. Although Ibsen has been accused of being responsible for the 'death of tragedy', Ken Newton argues that Ibsen instead generates an anti-tragic perspective that had a major influence on dramatists such as Shaw and Brecht. By contrast, writers such as Hardy and Conrad, influenced by Schopenhauerean pessimism and Darwinism, attempt to modernise the concept of the tragic. Nietzsche's revisionist interpretation of the tragic influenced writers who either take pessimism or the 'Dionysian' commitment to life to an extreme, as in Strindberg and D.H. Lawrence. Different views emerge in the period following the second world war with the 'Theatre of the Absurd' and postmodern anti-foundationalism. Key Features Broad coverage of drama and fiction by British, European, and American writers Provides readings of particular texts including Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Ibsen's Ghosts, Strindberg's Miss Julie, Brecht's Mother Courage, Chekhov's Three Sisters, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, Shaw's Saint Joan, Miller's Death of a Salesman, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and D H Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love Combines literary interpretation with philosophical discussion, e.g. of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Derrida, Rorty Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Tragedy -- History and criticism Tragic, The, in literature. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Literature, Modern Tragedy Tragic, The, in literature Tragödie Literatur Tragik Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780748636747 0748636749 1281785938 9781281785930 0748652086 9780748652082 9786611785932 6611785930

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