Sweet violence : the idea of the tragic

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Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists. Provides an analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the ancient world to the present day. Explores the idea of the 'tragic' across all genres of writing, as well as in philosophy, politics, religion and...

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Acknowledgements. -- Introduction. -- 1. A Theory in Ruins. -- 2. The Value of Agony. -- 3. From Hegel to Beckett. -- 4. Heroes. -- 5. Freedom, Fate and Justice. -- 6. Pity, Fear and Pleasure. -- 7. Tragedy and the Novel. -- 8. Tragedy and Modernity. -- 9 Demons. -- 10. Thomas Mann's Hedgehog