Hegelian literary perspectives
By: Anne Paolucci, Henry Paolucci ; preface by Anne Paolucci.
Contributors: Paolucci, Henry.; Walter Bagehot Council.
Publisher: Published for the Bagehot Council by Griffon House Publications
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Smyrna, DE
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Essays on Hegel's influence and reputation; The aesthetics; Comedy, social drama, verse drama; Shakespeare, A.C. Bradley, T.S. Eliot; Theater of the absurd; Luigi Pirandello, Edward Albee; Sophocles, Dante, Arthur Miller."
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE (9-50); title: HEGEL'S INFLUENCE AND REPUTATION; THE AESTHETICS; title: CHAPTER 1 DIALECTICAL INVERSIONS: HEGEL'S INFLUENCE AND REPUTATION (Henry Paolucci) 11; title: CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCTION TO HEGEL'S AESTHETICS; title: (Henry Paolucci) 28; title: Aristotle and Hegel 28; title: Italian Humanism, the German Reformation,; title: and the "Moderns" 28; title: The Rationalist Rejection of History and the; title: Romantic Rejection of that Rejection 30; title: Hegel's Comprehensive Aesthetic; title: and Theory of Literature 33; title: Hegel's Theory of Tragedy 43; title: PART TWO (51-96); title: COMEDY, SOCIAL DRAMA, VERSE DRAMA; title: CHAPTER 3 HEGEL'S THEORY OF COMEDY (Anne Paolucci) 53; title: The Place of Comedy in the Hegelian System 55; title: Aesthetic Irony and the Comical 59; title: The Personae of Ancient and Modern Comedy 61; title: Tragedy, Comedy, and the "End" of Art 68; title: CHAPTER 4 SOCIAL DRAMA AS HEIR OF TRAGEDY AND COMEDY;; title: THEATER OF THE ABSURD AND THE BREAK WITH THE PAST; title: (Anne Paolucci Henry Paolucci) 74; title: CHAPTER 5 VERSE DRAMA: THE BURDEN OF THE SHAKESPEAREAN MODEL, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE 'BECKETS' OF TENNYSON AND T. S. ELIOT (Henry Paolucci) 83; title: PART THREE (97-200); title: SHAKESPEARE; title: CHAPTER 6 BRADLEY AND HEGEL ON SHAKESPEARE (Anne Paolucci) 99; title: CHAPTER 7 SHAKESPEARE REVISITED: HEGEL, A. C. BRADLEY,; title: T. S. ELIOT (Anne Paolucci) 116; title: CHAPTER 8 MACBETHAND OEDIPUS REX: A STUDY IN PARADOX; title: (Anne Paolucci) 143; title: CHAPTER 9 MIRRORED USURPATION: HAMLET'S TRAGIC BURDEN (Henry Paolucci) 165; title: CHAPTER 10 MARX, MONEY, AND SHAKESPEARE: THE HEGELIAN CORE IN MARXIST SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM (Anne Paolucci) 179; title: Socialist-Realism and Shakespearean Humanism 179; title: The Marxist "Locus Classicus": Timon's Gold 184; title: From Misanthropy Back to Hegel 193; title: PART FOUR (201-246); title: DRAMA'S REDEMPTION OF THE ABSURD; title: CHAPTER 11 FROM THE TITAN OF AESCHYLUS TO ALBEE'S TINYALICE (Anne Paolucci Henry Paolucci) 203; title: CHAPTER 12 AVANT-GARDE ANTICIPATION OF THE ABSURD; title: (Henry Paolucci) 223; title: CHAPTER 13 SHAKESPEARE AND THE GENIUS OF THE ABSURD; title: (Anne Paolucci) 232; title: PART FIVE (247-336); title: "THEATER OF THE ABSURD"; title: CHAPTER 14 ShakesPEARE'S HAMLET AND PIRANDELLO'S ENRICO IV; title: (Anne Paolucci) 249; title: CHAPTER 15 COMEDY AND PARADOX IN PIRANDELLO'S PLAYS; title: (Anne Paolucci) 258; title: CHAPTER 16 PIRANDELLO AND THE WAITING STAGE OF THE ABSURD; title: (WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON A NEW 'CRITICAL LANGUAGE'); title: (Anne Paolucci) 280; title: CHAPTER 17 ALBEE AND THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE MODERN STAGE (Anne Paolucci) 293; title: Hamlet and the "Artistic Failure" of the Absurd 294; title: Albee's Kaleidoscopic Technique 301; title: Albee's "New Realism": A Delicate Balance 306; title: CHAPTER 18 ALBEE ON THE PRECIPITOUS HEIGHTS (Two ARMS ARE NOT ENOUGH!) (Anne Paolucci) 314; title: PART SIX (337-384); title: SOPHOCLES, DANTE, ARTHUR MILLER; title: CHAPTER 19 THE ORACLES ARE DUMB OR CHEAT: A STUDY OF THE MEANING OF OEDIPUS REX (Anne Paolucci) 339; title: CHAPTER 20 ART AND NATURE IN DANTE'S PURGATORIO; title: (Anne Paolucci) 350; title: CHAPTER 21 Arthur MILLER;S DEATH OFA SALESMAN:; title: THE TRAGIC HERO REDEFINED (Anne Paolucci) 366; title: ABOUT THE AUTHORS 385.