Tragedy and Theory The Problem of Conflict since Aristotle |
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Author:
| Zerba, Michelle |
Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-63261-2 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $125.00 |
Book Description:
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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 or
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 or