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This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Ibsen's Ghosts and the Rejection of the Tragic; 2. Anti-Tragic Drama After Ibsen; 3. Chekhov and the Tragic; 4. The Return of the Tragic in Fiction; 5. Nietzsche and the Redefining of the Tragic; 6. The 'Tragico-Dionysian' and D. H. Lawrence; 7. The Theatre of the Absurd and the Tragic; 8. The Tragic, Pragmatism, and the Postmodern; Index.

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/06/2008
      ISBN13: 9780748636730, 978-0748636730
      ISBN10: 0748636730
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Ibsen's Ghosts and the Rejection of the Tragic; 2. Anti-Tragic Drama After Ibsen; 3. Chekhov and the Tragic; 4. The Return of the Tragic in Fiction; 5. Nietzsche and the Redefining of the Tragic; 6. The 'Tragico-Dionysian' and D. H. Lawrence; 7. The Theatre of the Absurd and the Tragic; 8. The Tragic, Pragmatism, and the Postmodern; Index.

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