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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782244903321

Autore

Newton K. M.

Titolo

Modern literature and the tragic / / K.M. Newton [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-7486-5208-6

1-281-78593-8

9786611785932

0-7486-3674-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

809.9162

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - History and criticism

Tragedy - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.