An Essay on the Tragic by Peter Szondi
This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.
“This is a gem of a bookFew critics would be capable of engaging a significant number of the great tragedies and important theorists of tragedy in such short compass. But Szondi does it in completely remarkable fashion. Not only does this make for captivating reading, it also makes this a virtually ideal teaching tool, for it features the signature of Szondi’s writing: great clarity, about complex matters. No one has really replaced Szondi in his role as a theoretically informal interpreter of comparative literature.”—Ian Balfour, York University
Peter Szondi (1929-1971) was Professor of Comparative Literature at the Free University in Berlin. He is the author of groundbreaking works on the theory of drama, on literary hermeneutics, on Hölderlin, and on Celan.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804743952 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804743959 |
| Title | An Essay on the Tragic |
| Author | Peter Szondi |
| Series | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Year published | 2002-07-23 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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