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Tragedy and redress in Western literature : a philosophical perspective, Richard Gaskin
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- Summary
- "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 protagonists suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognized by recent critics, traditional tragedy represents suffering as incurred by avoidable and culpable mistakes of a cognitive nature. Moral redress operates in the first instance at the level of the individual agent. Linguistic redress, by contrast, operates at a higher level of generality, namely at the level of the community: its fundamental motor is the sheer expressibility of suffering in words. Against many writers on tragedy, Gaskin argues that language is competent to express pain and suffering, and that tragic literature has that expression as one its principal purposes.The definition of tragic literature in this book is expanded to include more than stage drama: the treatment stretches from the Classical and Medieval periods through to the early twentieth century. There is a special focus on Sophocles, but Gaskin takes account of most other major tragic authors in the European tradition, including Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, Seneca, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Bu?chner, Ibsen, Hardy, Kafka, and Mann; lesser-known areas, such as Renaissance neo-Latin tragedy, are also covered. Among theorists of tragedy, Gaskin concentrates on Aristotle and Bradley; but the contributions of numerous contemporary commentators are also assessed. Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective offers a new and genuinely interdisciplinary perspective on tragedy that will be of considerable interest both to philosophers of literature and to literary critics."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 412 pages)
- Contents
-
- Tragedy and moral redress
- Oedipus, Hamartia, freedom, and the supernatural
- Antigone's holy crime
- From cognitive failure to no-fault tragedy
- Tragedy and linguistic redress
- Theoretical considerations
- Can suffering be expressed in words?
- Tragedy and linguistic idealism
- Isbn
- 9781351017039
- Label
- Tragedy and redress in Western literature : a philosophical perspective
- Title
- Tragedy and redress in Western literature
- Title remainder
- a philosophical perspective
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Gaskin
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 protagonists suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognized by recent critics, traditional tragedy represents suffering as incurred by avoidable and culpable mistakes of a cognitive nature. Moral redress operates in the first instance at the level of the individual agent. Linguistic redress, by contrast, operates at a higher level of generality, namely at the level of the community: its fundamental motor is the sheer expressibility of suffering in words. Against many writers on tragedy, Gaskin argues that language is competent to express pain and suffering, and that tragic literature has that expression as one its principal purposes.The definition of tragic literature in this book is expanded to include more than stage drama: the treatment stretches from the Classical and Medieval periods through to the early twentieth century. There is a special focus on Sophocles, but Gaskin takes account of most other major tragic authors in the European tradition, including Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, Seneca, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Bu?chner, Ibsen, Hardy, Kafka, and Mann; lesser-known areas, such as Renaissance neo-Latin tragedy, are also covered. Among theorists of tragedy, Gaskin concentrates on Aristotle and Bradley; but the contributions of numerous contemporary commentators are also assessed. Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective offers a new and genuinely interdisciplinary perspective on tragedy that will be of considerable interest both to philosophers of literature and to literary critics."--Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gaskin, Richard
- Dewey number
- 111.85
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BH301.T7
- LC item number
- G37 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Routledge research in aesthetics
- Series volume
- 3
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Classical literature
- Literature
- Tragic, The
- Label
- Tragedy and redress in Western literature : a philosophical perspective, Richard Gaskin
- Contents
- Tragedy and moral redress -- Oedipus, Hamartia, freedom, and the supernatural -- Antigone's holy crime -- From cognitive failure to no-fault tragedy -- Tragedy and linguistic redress -- Theoretical considerations -- Can suffering be expressed in words? -- Tragedy and linguistic idealism
- Control code
- 9781351017039
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 412 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781351017039
- Other control number
- 10.4324/9781351017039
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1029244359
- Label
- Tragedy and redress in Western literature : a philosophical perspective, Richard Gaskin
- Contents
- Tragedy and moral redress -- Oedipus, Hamartia, freedom, and the supernatural -- Antigone's holy crime -- From cognitive failure to no-fault tragedy -- Tragedy and linguistic redress -- Theoretical considerations -- Can suffering be expressed in words? -- Tragedy and linguistic idealism
- Control code
- 9781351017039
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 412 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781351017039
- Other control number
- 10.4324/9781351017039
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1029244359
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