Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective

by Richard Gaskin

Book Overview

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing of a protagonist's suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognized by recent critics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036766674X
• ISBN13: 9780367666743
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 412 Pages