Tragedy

by S. Regal Martin and Martin Regal

Book Overview

Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of cultural narrative. Debated from Aristotle to the present day, tragedy has never lost it central place in aesthetic discourse and has been re-imagined and redefined to suit to tastes of succeeding generations. In this volume Martin Regal considers:

problems of definition across historical and cultural lines the enduring influence of Aristotle's Poetics and post-Aristotelian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415222249
• ISBN13: 9780415222242
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages