Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to ArmageddonClarendon Press, 1996 - 404 trang Revenge has long been a central theme in Western culture. From Homer to Nietzsche, from St. Paul to Sylvia Plath, major writers have been fascinated by its emotional intensity and by the questions it raises about the nature of justice, violence, sexuality, and death. John Kerrigan employs both wide-ranging historical analysis and subtle attention to individual texts to explore the culture of vengeance in several languages and genres. Thus, he shows how evolving attitudes to retribution have shaped and reconstituted tragedy in the West and elucidates the remarkable capacity of this ancient theme to generate innovative works of art. Although this book is a literary study, it makes use of anthropology, social theory, and moral philosophy. As a result, it will be of interest to students in a variety of disciplines, as well as to the general reader. |
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... character murdered and , unless you are prepared to raise him from the grave - or turn him into a toppling statue - you have excluded him from violence . But this is , in dramatic practice , an advantage since , in the transference of ...
... character murdered and , unless you are prepared to raise him from the grave - or turn him into a toppling statue - you have excluded him from violence . But this is , in dramatic practice , an advantage since , in the transference of ...
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... character . That claim has a familiar ring . ' A work could not be a tragedy it there were no action ' , Aristotle says in the Poetics , ' But there could be a tragedy without mimesis of character ' ( 1450a ) . Once again , the ...
... character . That claim has a familiar ring . ' A work could not be a tragedy it there were no action ' , Aristotle says in the Poetics , ' But there could be a tragedy without mimesis of character ' ( 1450a ) . Once again , the ...
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... character ' . As Williams explains in ' Persons , Character and Morality ' , 5 Kantianism abstracts moral decision - making away from characters in this sense , while ' Utilitarianism strikingly abstracts from their separateness ...
... character ' . As Williams explains in ' Persons , Character and Morality ' , 5 Kantianism abstracts moral decision - making away from characters in this sense , while ' Utilitarianism strikingly abstracts from their separateness ...
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On Aristotle and Revenge Tragedy | 3 |
Aeschylus and Dracula | 33 |
Sophocles in Baker Street | 59 |
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