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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... heroine of that melodrama , some fifteen years later , Clarissa finds herself confined to a brothel ; she , like Caelia , dies of something nameless com- pounded from grief ; and there is even , in the play , the double catastrophe of ...
... heroine of that melodrama , some fifteen years later , Clarissa finds herself confined to a brothel ; she , like Caelia , dies of something nameless com- pounded from grief ; and there is even , in the play , the double catastrophe of ...
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... heroine beyond those activities of language which make it possible for the Chorus to think about what might be ' just ' . 2 In Euripides , Medea manages to be both barbarous and verbally adroit . When she movingly tells the Chorus that ...
... heroine beyond those activities of language which make it possible for the Chorus to think about what might be ' just ' . 2 In Euripides , Medea manages to be both barbarous and verbally adroit . When she movingly tells the Chorus that ...
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... heroine of this semi - autobiographical work is called Andrea . On several occasions the reader is reminded that the name means ' courage ' . It is a quality much needed in the eighteen years ( from ' Age 9 ' to ' Age 27 ' ) during ...
... heroine of this semi - autobiographical work is called Andrea . On several occasions the reader is reminded that the name means ' courage ' . It is a quality much needed in the eighteen years ( from ' Age 9 ' to ' Age 27 ' ) during ...
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On Aristotle and Revenge Tragedy | 3 |
Aeschylus and Dracula | 33 |
Sophocles in Baker Street | 59 |
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