Principles of Tragedy: A Rational Examination of the Tragic Concept in Life and Literature

by Geoffrey Brereton

What is tragedy? What does the term imply? The word had outgrown its original context of literature and art and acquired wider and looser meanings.

Originally published in 1968, Dr Brereton seeks to establish the basis of a definition which will hold good on various planes and over a wide range of dramatic and other literature. Various theories are examined, beginning with Aristotle and taking in the Marxist interpretation and the two main...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032253037
• ISBN13: 9781032253039
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages