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Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century.
- A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists.
- Provides an analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the ancient world to the present day.
- Explores the idea of the 'tragic' across all genres of writing, as well as in philosophy, politics, religion and psychology, and throughout western culture.
- Considers the psychological, religious and socio-political implications and consequences of our fascination with the tragic.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: A Theory in Ruins
- Chapter 2: The Value of Agony
- Chapter 3: From Hegel to Beckett
- Chapter 4: Heroes
- Chapter 5: Freedom, Fate and Justice
- Chapter 6: Pity, Fear and Pleasure
- Chapter 7: Tragedy and the Novel
- Chapter 8: Tragedy and Modernity
- Chapter 9: Demons
- Chapter 10: Thomas Mannâs Hedgehog
- Notes
- Index