Achilles' Choice: Examples of Modern Tragedy

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Achilles' Choice: Examples of Modern Tragedy
Authors and Contributors      By (author) David Lenson
SeriesPrinceton Essays in Literature
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:194
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary theory
ISBN/Barcode 9780691617749
ClassificationsDewey:809.9162
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 8 March 2015
Publication Country United States

Description

Why, during the last two hundred years, when critical achievement in the field of tragedy has been outstanding, has there been little creative practice? David Lenson examines the work of various writers not ordinarily placed in the tragic tradition--among them, Kleist, Goethe, Melville, Yeats, and Faulkner--and suggests that the tradition of traged