Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic

by Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester)

• ISBN13: 9780470765951
• ISBN10: 047076595X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

A Theory in Ruins

The Value of Agony

From Hegel to Beckett

Heroes

Freedom, Fate and Justice

Pity, Fear and Pleasure

Tragedy and the Novel

Tragedy and Modernity

Demons

Thomas Mann's Hedgehog

Notes

Index

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