Search Results - "tragedy"

Tragedy / by Leech, Clifford

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; FOUNDER EDITOR'S PREFACE page; PREFATORY NOTE; Some Definitions and Observations; Tragedy in Practice and in Theory; The Tragic Hero; Cleansing? …”
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Tragedy : a very short introduction / by Poole, Adrian

Subjects: “…Tragedy.…”
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Of Tragedy. by Hume, David

Subjects: “…Tragedy Early works to 1800.…”
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Tragedy / by Eagleton, Terry, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- 1. Did tragedy die? -- 2. Incest and arithmetic -- 3. Tragic transitions -- 4. …”
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Tragedy : A Short Introduction. by Bushnell, Rebecca

Subjects: “…Tragedy History and criticism Theory, etc.…”
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Seneca's Tragedies : with an English translation / by Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D

“…Tragedies.…”

Sophoclean tragedy / by Bowra, C. M. (Cecil Maurice), 1898-1971

The tragedies of Aeschylos : a new translation / by Aeschylus

An Ottoman tragedy : history and historiography at play / by Piterberg, Gabriel, 1955-

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Roman tragedy : theatre to theatricality / by Erasmo, Mario

Table of Contents: “…Theatre to theatricality -- Creating tragedy -- Theatricalizing tragedy -- Dramatizing history -- Creating metatragedy -- Metatragedy.…”
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Tragedies of spirit : tracing finitude in Hegel's phenomenology / by George, Theodore D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : spirit and its tragedies -- The tragedy of experience -- The tragedy of freedom -- The tragedy of ethical life -- Tragic wisdom -- "Life hangs in the balance."…”
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The little tragedies / by Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837

Table of Contents: “…The little tragedies. The miserly knight ; Mozart and Salieri ; The stone guest ; A feast during the plague -- Critical essays. …”
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The tragedy in history : Herodotus and the Deuteronomistic history / by Nielsen, Flemming A. J.

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Tragedy and citizenship : conflict, reconciliation, and democracy from Haemon to Hegel / by Barker, Derek Wai Ming

Table of Contents: “…Listening to Haemon : citizenship in the Antigone -- Pity, fear, and citizenship : the politics of Aristotle's Poetics -- Hegel and the politics of reconciliation -- Redescription as reconciliation : Richard Rorty -- John Rawls and Hegelian political philosophy -- Judith Butler's postmodern antigone -- Conclusion : tragedy, citizenship, and the human condition.…”
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Philosophy And Tragedy. by Sparks, Simon, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Hegel: or the tragedy of thinking; 2 Self-dissolving seriousness: on the comic in the Hegelian concept of tragedy; 3 Of tragic metaphor; 4 Tragedy and speculation; 5 A small number of houses in a universe of tragedy: notes on Aristotle's and Holderlin's 'Anmerkungen'; 6 Holderlin's theatre; 7 Aesthetically limited reason: on Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy; 8 Zarathustra: the tragic figure of the last philosopher.…”
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Greek Tragedy. by Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin

Table of Contents: “…Greek Tragedy; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; Part I Tragedy in Its Athenian Context; 1 What Was Tragedy?…”
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The strangeness of tragedy / by Hammond, Paul, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The work of tragedy -- Aeschylus, Oresteia -- Sophocles, Electra -- Sophocles, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus -- Sophocles, Antigone -- Seneca, Thyestes -- Shakespeare, Macbeth -- Shakespeare, Othello -- Shakespeare, King Lear -- Racine, Phèdre -- Epilogue.…”
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The locus of tragedy /

Table of Contents: “…Locus tragicus: the problem of place in Greek tragedy / David Janssens -- How to perform the polis? …”
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Tragedy offstage : suffering and sympathy in ancient athens / by Sternberg, Rachel Hall

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Greek tragedy : suffering under the sun / by Hall, Edith, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Note on Abbreviations and Translations; Introduction: What is Greek Tragedy?; 1 Play Makers; 2 Community Identities; 3 Confrontations; 4 Minds; 5 Aeschylean Drama; 6 Euripidean Drama; 7 Sophoclean Drama; 8 Greek Tragedy and Tragic Fragments Today; Notes; Further Reading; Index.…”
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