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The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy

Jennifer L. Wallace

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1. Approaching the subject 2. Tragic drama: 2.1. The Greeks 2.2. Seneca and Racine 2.3. Shakespeare 2.4. Romantic tragedy: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov 2.5. American tragedy 2.6. Postcolonial tragedy 2.7. Beckett Case studies 1: Physical violence and dismemberment Case studies 2: Language 3. Tragic theory: 3.1. Aristotle 3.2. Hegel 3.3. Nietzsche 3.4. Kierkegaard 3.5. Camus 3.6. Girard Case studies 1: Fate Case studies 2: Politics Case studies 3: Gender 4. Non-dramatic tragedy: 4.1. Visual culture 4.2. Novel 4.3. Film 4.4. Psychoanalysis 4.5. Theology 5. Coda: Tragic sites Bibliography.

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1. Approaching the subject 2. Tragic drama: 2.1. The Greeks 2.2. Seneca and Racine 2.3. Shakespeare 2.4. Romantic tragedy: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov 2.5. American tragedy 2.6. Postcolonial tragedy 2.7. Beckett Case studies 1: Physical violence and dismemberment Case studies 2: Language 3. Tragic theory: 3.1. Aristotle 3.2. Hegel 3.3. Nietzsche 3.4. Kierkegaard 3.5. Camus 3.6. Girard Case studies 1: Fate Case studies 2: Politics Case studies 3: Gender 4. Non-dramatic tragedy: 4.1. Visual culture 4.2. Novel 4.3. Film 4.4. Psychoanalysis 4.5. Theology 5. Coda: Tragic sites Bibliography.

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1. Approaching the subject 2. Tragic drama: 2.1. The Greeks 2.2. Seneca and Racine 2.3. Shakespeare 2.4. Romantic tragedy: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov 2.5. American tragedy 2.6. Postcolonial tragedy 2.7. Beckett Case studies 1: Physical violence and dismemberment Case studies 2: Language 3. Tragic theory: 3.1. Aristotle 3.2. Hegel 3.3. Nietzsche 3.4. Kierkegaard 3.5. Camus 3.6. Girard Case studies 1: Fate Case studies 2: Politics Case studies 3: Gender 4. Non-dramatic tragedy: 4.1. Visual culture 4.2. Novel 4.3. Film 4.4. Psychoanalysis 4.5. Theology 5. Coda: Tragic sites Bibliography.

Key concepts: Tragedy (event), Hegelianism, Drama, Literature, Romance, Philosophy, Subject (documents), Greek tragedy

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