Blackwell Publishing, Malden / Oxford / Carlton, 2007. XII,315p. ills.(B&W photographs). Hard bound with dust wrps. Nice copy. 'This collection of essays is bold and unashamedly far-reaching in its approach to the subject of tragedy, a topic that has enjoyed a high status in the history of literary criticism and aesthetics. (...) Although the discourses on the death of tragedy have shadowed most thinking about tragedy from the end of the Greek model to Georg Steiner's twentieth-century aphorisms, the impressive essays in this volume testify to the genre's enduring persistence and ability to address notions of loss and mourning, death and resurrection, history and transition. Indeed, the term transition, as it appears in the title, proves central for the understanding of tragedy as a genre whose form and content are particularly sensitive to notions of the boundary (individual/collective, past/present, history/ metaphysics, life/death) and exhibit a level of adaptability that adds an intertextual quality, which throughout time has become constitutive of the form. S.A. Brown in her illuminating introduction calls this quality tragedy's 'capacity to be adapted and transformed' (p.1). And it is this quality that the authors pick up on as they draw a number of dazzling connections between texts and periods. (...) The collection is framed by two insightful essays, one by each Editor. The Introduction by S.A. Brown helpfully sets out the methodological ...

ISBN10: 1405135468, ISBN13: 9781405135467, [publisher: Wiley-Blackwell] Hardcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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Blackwell Pub, Date: 2007. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 328 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. 2007. Blackwell Pub ISBN 1405135468 9781405135467 [GB]

Wiley-Blackwell 2007 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. Contains: Figures.

Blackwell Pub 2007 Hardcover New Illustrated edition. 328 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.

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