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Rethinking Tragedy
Rita . Ed(S): Felski
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Description for Rethinking Tragedy
Hardback. Reiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh Editor(s): Felski, Rita. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 635.
This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics. Seven new essays-as well as eight essays originally published in a New Literary History special issue on tragedy-address important, previously neglected areas of tragedy and postcolonial criticism. The new material explores the tragic dimensions of popular culture, the relationship between tragedy and pity, and feminism's avoidance of the tragic, and includes an incisive history of tragic theory. ... Read more
This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics. Seven new essays-as well as eight essays originally published in a New Literary History special issue on tragedy-address important, previously neglected areas of tragedy and postcolonial criticism. The new material explores the tragic dimensions of popular culture, the relationship between tragedy and pity, and feminism's avoidance of the tragic, and includes an incisive history of tragic theory. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801887390
SKU
V9780801887390
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99-19
About Rita . Ed(S): Felski
Rita Felski is a professor of English and chair of comparative literature at the University of Virginia.
Reviews for Rethinking Tragedy
[A] stimulating symposium. Times Literary Supplement This is a stimulating and provocative collection. Anyone interested in our cultural and political fascination with 'endless Tragedie' will find plenty of red meat here.
Adrian Streete English 2010
Adrian Streete English 2010