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Tragedy: Contradiction And Repression
by Richard Francis Kuhns (Author),
University of Chicago Press (Publisher)
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Book Description
Drawing on philosophical and psychoanalytic methods of interpretation, Richard
Kuhns explores modern transformations of an ancient poetic genre, tragedy.
Recognition of the philosophical problems addressed in tragedy, and of their
presence up through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophical texts,
novels, and poetry, establishes a continuity between classical and modern
enactments. Psychoanalytic theory in both its original formulations and
post-Freud developments provides a means to enlarge upon and inform
philosophical analyses that have dominated modern discussions.
From Aeschylus' classic drama The Persians to the hidden tragic themes in The
Merchant of Venice, from the aesthetic writings of Kant to Kleist's narrative
Michael Kohlhaas, Kuhns traces the writing and rewriting of
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780226458267
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Publishing Date 1991-12-01
Total Pages 190