TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zerba,Michelle
TI  - Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9780691603247
AV  - PN1892 
U1  - 809.2/512 19
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Conflict (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Tragedy
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aeschylus
KW  - Aesthetic Theory
KW  - Anguish
KW  - Antinomy
KW  - Antithesis
KW  - Appeal to emotion
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Ars Poetica (Horace)
KW  - Averroes
KW  - Bussy D'Ambois
KW  - Catharsis
KW  - Characters of Shakespear's Plays
KW  - Classical unities
KW  - Classicism
KW  - Closed circle
KW  - Coluccio Salutati
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Contemptus mundi
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Critique
KW  - Decorum
KW  - Deontological ethics
KW  - Dialectic
KW  - Disputation
KW  - Dissoi logoi
KW  - Divine law
KW  - Dramatic theory
KW  - Ethical dilemma
KW  - Euripides
KW  - Existentialism
KW  - Externality
KW  - Francis Fergusson
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Greek tragedy
KW  - Hamartia
KW  - Hannah Arendt
KW  - Hedonism
KW  - Hegelianism
KW  - Hubris
KW  - Intentionality
KW  - Irony
KW  - Irrational Man
KW  - Irrationality
KW  - Jacques Derrida
KW  - Jean Hyppolite
KW  - Karl Jaspers
KW  - King Lear
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Literary theory
KW  - Lodovico Castelvetro
KW  - Mental space
KW  - Mimesis
KW  - Moral absolutism
KW  - Moral realism
KW  - Morality
KW  - Myth
KW  - New Thought
KW  - Nicomachean Ethics
KW  - On Truth
KW  - Pathos
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Pity
KW  - Platitude
KW  - Plautus
KW  - Poetics (Aristotle)
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Polonius
KW  - Pre-Socratic philosophy
KW  - Prohairesis
KW  - Quintilian
KW  - Rationality
KW  - Renaissance tragedy
KW  - Republic (Plato)
KW  - Revenge tragedy
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Satire
KW  - Scholasticism
KW  - Shakespearean tragedy
KW  - Sophocles
KW  - Stephen Greenblatt
KW  - Suffering
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Søren Kierkegaard
KW  - Teleology
KW  - The Birth of Tragedy
KW  - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
KW  - The Philosopher
KW  - Theodicy
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thomas Kyd
KW  - Thought
KW  - Tragic hero
KW  - Verisimilitude
KW  - W. D. Ross
KW  - William Prynne
KW  - William Shakespeare
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Translations --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Hegel: Conflict And Order --; Chapter Two. Aristotle: Conflict and Disorder --; Chapter Three. Renaissance And Neoclassical Dramatic Theory: Conflict and Didacticism --; Chapter Four. Kant and Schiller: Conflict and the Sublime --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict. Isolating the centrality of conflict in twentieth-century definitions of tragedy, Professor Zerba discusses the efforts of modern critics to locate in Aristotle's Poetics the origins of this focus on agon. Through a study of ethical and political ideas formative of the Poetics, she demonstrates why Aristotle and his Renaissance and Neoclassical beneficiaries exclude conflict from their accounts of tragedy. The agonistic element, the book argues, first emerges in dramatic criticism in nineteenth-century Romantic theories of the sublime and, more influentially, in Hegel's lectures on drama and history.This turning point in the history of speculation about tragedy is examined with attention to a dynamic between the systematic aims of theory and the subversive conflicts of tragic plays. In readings of various Classical and Renaissance dramatists, Professor Zerba reveals that strife in tragedy undermines expectations of coherence, closure, and moral stability, on which theory bases its principles of dramatic order. From Aristotle to Hegel, the philosophical interest in securing these principles determines attitudes toward conflict.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400859382
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