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The Art of Tragedy and the Battle Against It

The Art of Tragedy and the Battle Against It

Sharkey, Timothy

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ISBN10: 1479378712
ISBN13: 9781479378715
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 24 2012
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It explains the masterpieces of Western literature - our tragic dramas - in aesthetic terms. It disagrees with how our literary critics have explained our tragic dramas in moral terms throughout history. It illustrates the way that Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Arthur Miller, for example, created the dramatic and tragic impact in their plays with dramatic incongruity, a principle that works aesthetically. It disagrees with how our literary critics - Aristotle, Hegel, and A C Bradley, in particular - have removed this principle of dramatic incongruity and have replaced it instead with a logic of moral propriety. They have connected a tragic hero's catastrophe to the thing that he did wrong to cause it with his tragic flaw. As a result, they have precluded the possibility of incongruity existing in a catastrophe. The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It, accordingly, explains how Prometheus Bound, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo & Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Faust, and Death of A Salesman produce their dramatic and tragic impact with dramatic incongruity. There is a conflict between our tragic poets who wrote their tragic plays aesthetically and our literary critics who have explained them morally. The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It cites our tragic poets' ideas about incongruity from the dialog of their actual tragic plays. It contains full chapters on The Natural Order of Things, The Tragic Flaw Concept, The Object of the Drama, Tragic Pleasure, Irony, Catharsis, and The Sublime, among others.

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