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Title: The Death of Tragedy by George Steiner ISBN: 0-300-06916-2 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Summary: Fate of the tragical
Comment: If you have ever sat down with quill pen to attempt a blank verse tragedy, only to tear up your notes, this is the book for you. Tragedy as a genre remains the rara avis in the history of art, and its brief appearances seem to accompany periods of history going into high gear. Its reappearance in the early modern, followed by its steady decline in modernist amnesia, is a challenge to our basic conceptions of the technological quick fix, and the presumption our potential is open to our rational powers. Steiner reviews the enigma of this history, on and off, and focusses on the 'death' of the genre in more recent modern times, cataloguing the consistent string of failures even in many of the best later poets, from Dryden to Keats. Some might disagree with the verdict, yet one must confront the facts, which cannot, however, condemn us to the final demise of this artform, since its very history shows its sudden and unexpected rebirth. Yet the whole question is bound in some primordial evolution of language and its poetics, as these seem better tilled soil at the beginning than over the course of subsequent development, witness the richness of the first source, Homer's Iliad, the master chord from which the tragical melody sounds its echoes.
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Title: Antigones by George Steiner ISBN: 0300069154 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism by George Steiner ISBN: 0300069170 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture by George, Steiner ISBN: 0300017103 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1974 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Tragedy and Philosophy by Walter Kaufmann ISBN: 0691020051 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 08 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman by George Steiner ISBN: 0300074719 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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