Rethinking Tragedy

Rita Felski (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0801887402 / ISBN 13: 9780801887406

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

About this Item

Reiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh Editor(s): Felski, Rita. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514. . 2008. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Tragedy
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801887402
• ISBN 13: 9780801887406
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics.

Seven new essays―as well as eight essays originally published in a New Literary History special issue on tragedy―address important, previously neglected areas of tragedy and postcolonial criticism. The new material explores the tragic dimensions of popular culture, the relationship between tragedy and pity, and feminism's avoidance of the tragic, and includes an incisive history of tragic theory.

Classic and cutting-edge, this collection offers a provocative, accessible, and comprehensive treatment of tragedy and tragic theory.

Contributors: Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich; Stanley Corngold, Princeton University; Simon Critchley, University of Essex; Joshua Foa Dienstag, University of California, Los Angeles; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University; Page duBois, University of California, San Diego; Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester; Rita Felski, University of Virginia; Simon Goldhill, Cambridge University; Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania; Michel Maffesoli, University of Paris (V); Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago; Timothy J. Reiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh

About the Author

Rita Felski is a professor of English and chair of comparative literature at the University of Virginia.