Reader In Tragedy An Anthology Of Classical Criticism To Contemporary Theory Marcus Nevitt by Marcus Nevitt, Tanya Pollard 9781474270434, 1474270433 instant download after payment.

"This unique anthology presents a selection of the most important historical essays on tragedy, ranging from antiquity to the present. Across its span, it traces the development of theories and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways in which different historical periods and varieties of thought have transformed the status of tragedy, and the idea of the tragic, for generations of artists, critics, and thinkers. ... Ideas of tragedy have been central to the understanding of culture for the past two millennia. Writers and thinkers from Plato to Judith Butler have analysed the genre of tragedy to probe fundamental questions about ethics, pleasure, and responsibility. Does tragedy demand that we enjoy witnessing the pain of others? Does it suggest that suffering is inevitable? Is human sexuality tragic? Is tragedy even possible in a world of rolling news on a digitally connected planet, where atrocity and trauma from around the globe are matters of daily information?"--