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Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict. Isolating the centrality of conflict in twentieth-century definitions of tragedy, Professor Zerba discusses the efforts of modern critics to locate in Aristotle's Poetics the or



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xv*Note on Translations, pg. xvii*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter One. Hegel: Conflict And Order, pg. 23*Chapter Two. Aristotle: Conflict and Disorder, pg. 94*Chapter Three. Renaissance And Neoclassical Dramatic Theory: Conflict and Didacticism, pg. 163*Chapter Four. Kant and Schiller: Conflict and the Sublime, pg. 243*Bibliography, pg. 269*Index, pg. 287

Tragedy and Theory The Problem of Conflict Since

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 14 July 2014
      ISBN-13 9780691603247
      978-0691603247
      ISBN-10 0691603243
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      Semiotics / semiology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict. Isolating the centrality of conflict in twentieth-century definitions of tragedy, Professor Zerba discusses the efforts of modern critics to locate in Aristotle's Poetics the or



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xv*Note on Translations, pg. xvii*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter One. Hegel: Conflict And Order, pg. 23*Chapter Two. Aristotle: Conflict and Disorder, pg. 94*Chapter Three. Renaissance And Neoclassical Dramatic Theory: Conflict and Didacticism, pg. 163*Chapter Four. Kant and Schiller: Conflict and the Sublime, pg. 243*Bibliography, pg. 269*Index, pg. 287

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