ENGLISH

The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature

By Joyce Carol Oates

Book information

Publisher
The Vanguard Press
Year
1972
ISBN
9780814906750
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8353890 bytes)
Pages
276\276
Topic
Literature Prose
Time added
2019-08-19 14:59:41

Description

Contents......Page 12 Introduction: Forms of Tragic Literature......Page 14 1. The Tragedy of Existence: Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida......Page 22 2. The Tragedy of Imagination: Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra”......Page 50 3. Melville and the Tragedy of Nihilism......Page 72 4. Tragic and Comic Visions in The Brothers Karamazov......Page 98 5. Chekhov and the Theater of the Absurd......Page 128 6. Yeats: Violence, Tragedy, Mutability......Page 152 7. Tragic Rites in Yeats’s A Full Moon in March......Page 176 8. Art at the Edge of Impossibility: Mann’s “Dr. Faustus”......Page 202 9. Ionesco’s Dances of Death......Page 236 Notes......Page 264

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