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UNINA9910782244903321 |
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Autore |
Newton K. M. |
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Titolo |
Modern literature and the tragic / / K.M. Newton [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2008 |
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0-7486-5208-6 |
1-281-78593-8 |
9786611785932 |
0-7486-3674-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (179 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature, Modern - History and criticism |
Tragedy - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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