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  1. What was tragedy?
    theory and the early modern canon
    Author: Hoxby, Blair
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford ; [Oxford University Press], [Oxford]

    Modern critics have definite ideas about tragedy, maintaining that in a true tragedy fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with... more

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    Modern critics have definite ideas about tragedy, maintaining that in a true tragedy fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with spiritual consolation. Yet far from being a timeless truth, this account of tragedy only emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. This study demonstrates that this account of the tragic, which has been hegemonic from the early 19th century despite recent twists and turns of critical fashion, obscured an earlier poetics of tragedy that evolved from 1515 to 1795.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191813283
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    RVK Categories: EC 7510 ; EC 7514
    Edition: First edition.
    Subjects: Tragödie; Tragödientheorie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource, Illustrations (black and white)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. What was tragedy?
    theory and the early modern canon
    Author: Hoxby, Blair
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Modern critics have definite ideas about tragedy, maintaining that in a true tragedy fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with... more

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    Modern critics have definite ideas about tragedy, maintaining that in a true tragedy fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with spiritual consolation. Yet far from being a timeless truth, this account of tragedy only emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. This study demonstrates that this account of the tragic, which has been hegemonic from the early 19th century despite recent twists and turns of critical fashion, obscured an earlier poetics of tragedy that evolved from 1515 to 1795.

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191813283
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    Edition: First edition.
    Subjects: Tragedy
    Scope: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015)

  3. What was tragedy?
    theory and the early modern canon
    Author: Hoxby, Blair
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Modern critics have definite ideas about tragedy, maintaining that in a true tragedy fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with... more

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    Modern critics have definite ideas about tragedy, maintaining that in a true tragedy fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with spiritual consolation. Yet far from being a timeless truth, this account of tragedy only emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. This study demonstrates that this account of the tragic, which has been hegemonic from the early 19th century despite recent twists and turns of critical fashion, obscured an earlier poetics of tragedy that evolved from 1515 to 1795.

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191813283
    Other identifier:
    Edition: First edition.
    Subjects: Tragedy
    Scope: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015)