The Tragic Abyss

by Arbery, Glenn C.

• ISBN13: 9780911005417
• ISBN10: 0911005412
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	i
Introduction: The Tragic Abyss	1	(22)
Louise Cowan
TRAGEDY AND THEORY
Aristotle and the Tragic Bias	23	(16)
Robert S. Dupree
Tarrying With the Tragic: Hegel and His Critics	39	(20)
Bainard Cowan
The Mystery Doctrine of Tragedy: Nietzsche's Sublime	59	(26)
Glenn Arbery
SUFFERING AND WISDOM
Job and the Tragedy of Divine Love	85	(20)
Daniel Russ
Tragedy's Bloody Borders: The Oresteia	105	(20)
Louise Cowan
Bowing to the Wound: Philoctetes as a Tragedy of Compassion	125	(20)
Dennis Slattery
Through the Unlit Door of Earth: Sophocles' Transformation of Tragedy	145	(20)
Bainard Cowan
Fortune and Freedom: Euripides' Medea and Bacchae	165	(24)
Virginia Arbery
THE CANCELED BOND
Fathoming ``Cliffs of Fall Frightful'': Hamlet's Mappings	189	(24)
Judith Stewart Shank
Ritual, Epic, and Tragedy: Notes on Dante's Commedia and the Renaissance Tragedy of Time	213	(14)
Mary Mumbach
King Lear and the Space of Ritual	227	(22)
Glenn Arbery
Intervals of Risk and the Tragic Action of Macbeth	249	(24)
James Walter
TRAGEDY AND MODERNITY
Alternative Destinies: The Conundrum of Modern Tragedy	273	(20)
Robert S. Dupree
The Strange Upward Draft in the Novel: Flaubert and Dostoevsky	293	(20)
Paul Connell
Blood in a Topaz Shrine: Lorca and the Tribal Imperative	313	(20)
Gregory Marks
The Tragedy of Inheritance in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha Novels	333	(22)
J. Larry Allums
Resisting the Tragic Self: The Apotropaics of Toni Morrison's Beloved	355	(22)
Kathleen Marks
Works Cited	377	(16)
Index	393