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Tragic Modernities
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Pages: 221
Authors: Miriam Leonard
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-08 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. M
Tragedy and the Idea of Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Joshua Billings
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher:

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From around 1800, particularly in Germany, Greek tragedy has been privileged in popular and scholarly discourse for its relation to apparently timeless metaphys
Conscripts of Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: David Scott
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-03 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history—when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and a
Modern European Tragedy
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Annamaria Cascetta
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-01 - Publisher: Anthem Press

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The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in
Genealogy of the Tragic
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Joshua Billings
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek