Modern Literature And The Tragic

K. M. Newton

earliest edition we have, 2008 Edinburgh University Press, 2008 179 pages

"This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy. Although Ibsen has been accused of being responsible for the 'death of tragedy', Ken Newton argues that Ibsen instead generates an anti-tragic perspective that had a major influence on dramatists such as Shaw and...

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Modern Literature and the Tragic edition · 2008 · Edinburgh University Press · 9780748636747
Modern Literature And The Tragic edition · 2008 · Edinburgh University Press · 179 pages · 9780748636730
Modern Literature and the Tragic edition · 2008 · Edinburgh University Press · 9781281785930

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