Tragedy - A Very Short Introduction
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- نویسنده : Adrian Poole
توضیحات
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 حق تکثیر: انتشار در حریم عمومی اینترنت.
