You might also like

More about Sweet Violence - The Idea of the Tragic

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 148 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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.With his characteristic brilliance and inventiveness of mind, Eagleton weaves together literature, philosophy, ethics, theology, and political theory. In so doing he makes a major political - philosophical statement drawn from a startling range of Western thought, in the writings of Plato, St Paul, St Augustine, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Sartre and others. This book takes serious issue with the idea of 'the death of tragedy', and gives a comprehensive survey of definitions of tragedy itself, arguing a radical and controversial case.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Sweet Violence - The Idea of the Tragic
• Author: Terry Eagleton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348
• EAN: 9780631233602
• ISBN: 0631233601
• ID: 04111036
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 516 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. August 2002

Trending among others

---

---

---