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

    Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain 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... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    1 A 960416
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
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    Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain 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. 'What was tragedy?' demonstrates that this account of the tragic, which has been hegemonic from the early nineteenth century to the present despite all the twists and turns of critical fashion in the twentieth century, obscured an earlier poetics of tragedy that evolved from 1515 to 1795. By reconstructing that poetics, Blair Hoxby makes sense of plays that are "merely pathetic, not truly tragic," of operas with happy endings, of Christian tragedies, and of other plays that advertised themselves as tragedies to early modern audiences and yet have subsequently been denied the palm of tragedy by critics.0

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780198749165; 0198749163
    RVK Categories: HG 590 ; EC 7510 ; HG 580 ; EC 4740
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Tragedy; Tragedy
    Scope: x, 366 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Hier auch später erschienene unveränderte Nachdrucke

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 295-353. - Index

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

    Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain 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... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    1 A 960416
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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
    EC 7510 1157
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2015 A 11578
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    Universität Konstanz, Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
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    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
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    Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain 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. 'What was tragedy?' demonstrates that this account of the tragic, which has been hegemonic from the early nineteenth century to the present despite all the twists and turns of critical fashion in the twentieth century, obscured an earlier poetics of tragedy that evolved from 1515 to 1795. By reconstructing that poetics, Blair Hoxby makes sense of plays that are "merely pathetic, not truly tragic," of operas with happy endings, of Christian tragedies, and of other plays that advertised themselves as tragedies to early modern audiences and yet have subsequently been denied the palm of tragedy by critics.0

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0198749163; 9780198749165
    RVK Categories: HG 590 ; EC 7510 ; HG 580 ; EC 4740
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Tragedy; Tragedy; Tragedy
    Scope: x, 366 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Hier auch später erschienene unveränderte Nachdrucke

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 295-353. - Index