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Tragic Play

Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett

Tragic Play( )
Author: Menke, Christoph
Translator: Phillips, James
Series title:Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Ser.
ISBN:978-0-231-14556-5
Publication Date:Jul 2009
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $75.00
Book Description:

Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age after tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes this modernist prejudice by arguing that tragedy remains alive in the present in the distinctively new form of the playful, ironic, and self-consciously performative. Through close...
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Book Details
Pages:248
Detailed Subjects: Drama / Type / Tragedy
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.651 x 0.944 x 0.082 Inches
Book Weight:1.122 Pounds



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