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Book SynopsisThis powerful study is based on the premise that literary theory is important because literature is important. Bugliani explores the intersection of tragedy with philosophy and psychoanalysis. A threefold purpose is evident: to examine the tension between philosophy and literature, to discuss the teaching of tragedy and finally to discuss that teaching in the works of Lacan, Marcel and, above all, Paul Claudel.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - Chapter 1: Silencing the Gods - Chapter 2: Reading Paul Claudel ("The Muse Who Is Grace") - Chapter 2: Reading Paul Claudel ("The Muse Who Is Grace") - Chapter 3: What Tragedy Teaches (What Tragedy Teaches (What Tragedy Teaches / Literature, Ethics, and Psychoanalysis) - Chapter 4: Jacques Lacan Reads Paul Claudel (The Hostage / Hard Bread / The Humiliated Father) - Chapter 5: Tragic Wisdom (Introduction to Gabriel Marcel's Thought / Tragic Wisdom) - Chapter 6: Dramatic Creation (Gabriel Marcel on Dramatic Creation / Paul Claudel on Dramatic Creation) - Chapter 7: Gabriel Marcel Reads Paul Claudel - Chapter 8: Conclusion (The Prophetic Phenomenon / Creativity) - Bibliography - Index.
