The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy /

The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy / / Sean Carney.

The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth. Through an in-depth analysis of over sixty of their works, Sean C...

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VerfasserIn:
Carney, Sean ,
MitwirkendeR:
Barker, Howard,
Bond, Edward,
Churchill, Caryl,
Hare, David,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2013
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Work of Mourning, or, The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Bourgeoisie
  • Will and Desire - From the Tragedy of Socialism to the Ecstasy of the Unconscious
  • Tragedy and Postmodernity, or, The Promethean Impulse
  • The Dionysian Möbius Strip
  • New English Tragedians: The Tragedy of the Tragic
  • Conclusion: Late Modernism in Jerusalem
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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