Tragic Failures: Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic 9783110482324, 9783110479126

Tragic Failures: Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic 9783110482324, 9783110479126

This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenis

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Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse 9780813549910

The tragic mulatta was a stock figure in nineteenth-century American literature, an attractive mixed-race woman who beca

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Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse: Comedy, Tragedy and the Polis in 5th Century Athens 9004310908, 9789004310902

Despite the many studies of Greek comedy and tragedy separately, scholarship has generally neglected the relation of the

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Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect 9780226798486

At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67)

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Shakespeare’s Tragic Skepticism 9780300127201

Readers of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of S

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Euripides and the Tragic Tradition 0299107604, 9780299107604

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Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense 9781400868001

Tragedy in the eighteenth century is often said to have expired or been deflected into nondramatic forms like history an

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The Tragic and the Ecstatic 9780195343007

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Modern Literature and the Tragic 9780748636747

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748636730'); This book explores modern literature's responses to

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Tragic encounters and ordinary ethics 9781784993146

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