Tragedy - A Very Short Introduction
نویسنده:
Adrian Poole
امتیاز دهید
Tragedy is a precious word. We use it to confer dignity and value on
violence, catastrophe, agony, and bereavement. ‘Tragedy’ claims that
this death is exceptional. Yet these supposedly special fatalities are
in our ears and eyes every day, on the roads, in the skies, out there in
foreign lands and right here at home, the latest bad news. Is the
word now bandied around so freely that it has lost all meaning? Do
our conceptions of tragedy have any real connection with those of
the ancient Greeks, with whom it originated two and half thousand
years ago as the description of a particular kind of drama? How did
tragedy migrate from the Greeks to Shakespeare and Racine, from
drama to other art forms, from fiction to real events? What needs
has the idea of tragedy served, and to what use and abuse has it
been put?
Acknowledgements ix
List of illustrations xi
Introduction 1
1 Who needs it? 3
2 Once upon a time 20
3 The living dead 33
4 Who’s to blame? 44
5 Big ideas 56
6 No laughing matter 69
7 Words, words, words 82
8 Timing 97
9 Endings 112
References 125
Further reading 132
Index 141
بیشتر
violence, catastrophe, agony, and bereavement. ‘Tragedy’ claims that
this death is exceptional. Yet these supposedly special fatalities are
in our ears and eyes every day, on the roads, in the skies, out there in
foreign lands and right here at home, the latest bad news. Is the
word now bandied around so freely that it has lost all meaning? Do
our conceptions of tragedy have any real connection with those of
the ancient Greeks, with whom it originated two and half thousand
years ago as the description of a particular kind of drama? How did
tragedy migrate from the Greeks to Shakespeare and Racine, from
drama to other art forms, from fiction to real events? What needs
has the idea of tragedy served, and to what use and abuse has it
been put?
Acknowledgements ix
List of illustrations xi
Introduction 1
1 Who needs it? 3
2 Once upon a time 20
3 The living dead 33
4 Who’s to blame? 44
5 Big ideas 56
6 No laughing matter 69
7 Words, words, words 82
8 Timing 97
9 Endings 112
References 125
Further reading 132
Index 141
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