Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett by Christoph Menke

Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett

Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

Christoph Menke with James Phillips (Translator)

232 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history literary philosophy
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Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernit...

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