Myth, Telos, Identity : : The Tragic Schema in Greek and Shakespearean Drama /

Myth, Telos, Identity : : The Tragic Schema in Greek and Shakespearean Drama / / Iván Nyusztay.

Iván Nyusztay's Myth, Telos, Identity: The Tragic Schema in Greek and Shakespearean Drama for the first time presents a systematic comparison of Greek and Shakespearean tragedy. By thematizing the common modes of the tragic, it measures their structural regularities against corresponding philo...

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Superior document:Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 39
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Nyusztay, Iván
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2002.
Year of Publication:2002
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 39.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I Modes of the Tragic in Greek Drama
  • II Modes of the Tragic in Shakespearean Drama
  • III Character and Identity
  • IV On the Threshold of the Tragic: The Teleological Foundations of Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy
  • V From Character to Self
  • VI Forms of Action and Passivity
  • VII Forms of Inaction: Speech Acts
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: History Aside in Richard The Third: Mimesis or Poiesis?
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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