The Tragic Vision (Volume 1) - Softcover

Krieger, Murray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801815509 ISBN 13: 9780801815508

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973

Synopsis

Originally published in 1973. Literary critics who have studied tragedy and the tragic vision failed, in Murray Krieger's estimation, to define exactly what they saw as the tragic vision in general terms. An aim of his book is to create a tentative definition of tragic and to flesh out what the author sees as the definition most illuminating of modern literature and the modern mind. In order to do this, Krieger distinguishes between what he sees as the "tragic vision" and "tragedy"—tragedy, from his perspective, is an object's literary form, whereas tragic vision refers to a subject's psychology, the subject's view and version of reality. In light of the shriveling of the tragic concept in the modern world and the reduction of a total view to the psychology of the protagonist, Krieger contends that the protagonist in a tragedy is now more appropriately designated a "tragic visionary" than a "tragic hero."

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About the Author

Murray Krieger is University Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. His works include The Play and Place of Criticism, The Tragic Vision, and The Classic Vision (all published by Johns Hopkins University Press).

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801815509
• ISBN 13: 9780801815508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 295