Tragedy : contradiction and repression
Tragedies
x, 180 pages ; 24 cm
9780226458267, 0226458261
22629920
Introduction: tragic experience and tragic vision: old world and new
Loss and mourning in Aeschylus's Persians
Anticipations of tragedy: finding and loss in The Merchant of Venice
An intervening discussion: why we find tragic representations pleasurable
Quest for the sublime: philosopher as tragic hero
Modernity interprets tragic justice: reading Michael Kohlhass
Contradiction and repression: paradox and mask in American tragedy
Epilogue: tragic skepticism and redemption of the body
Appendix: Leaves of grass (edition of 1855) / Walt Whitman