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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

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    Publisher: Princeton University Press
    Publication Date: 14/07/2014
    ISBN13: 9780691603247, 978-0691603247
    ISBN10: 0691603243
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    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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