Sweet violence
Subtitle: the idea of the tragic
By: Terry Eagleton.
Publisher: Blackwell; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Tragic, The, in literature; Tragedy -- History and criticism
Description: In this dazzling book Terry Eagleton provides a comprehensive study of tragedy, all the way from Aeschylus to Edward Albee, dealing with both theory and practice, and moving between ideas of tragedy and analyses of particular works and authors. This amazing tour de force steps out beyond the stage to reflect not only on tragic art but also on real-life tragedy. It explores the idea of the tragic in the novel, examining such writers as Melville, Hawthorne, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Manzoni, Goethe and Mann, as well as English novelists. -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.