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2003
Abstract That strange genre, Shakespearian tragedy, challenges our belief that we read literature or watch plays out of enjoyment. Why would we enjoy watching suffering and death? Even those who see literature as educational usually offer some version of the sugarcoated pill metaphor-a coating of pleasure will induce us to swallow good ...
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Abstract That strange genre, Shakespearian tragedy, challenges our belief that we read literature or watch plays out of enjoyment. Why would we enjoy watching suffering and death? Even those who see literature as educational usually offer some version of the sugarcoated pill metaphor-a coating of pleasure will induce us to swallow good ...
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2018
Tragedy began in ancient Greece as a type of drama and has become an important part of the literary and critical tradition in Europe and the United States. Nondramatic poetry (‘lyric tragedy’) and some novels (for example, Moby Dick) have laid claim to being tragedies, or at least to being tragic, explicated as a type of plot or as a way of seeing the ...
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Tragedy began in ancient Greece as a type of drama and has become an important part of the literary and critical tradition in Europe and the United States. Nondramatic poetry (‘lyric tragedy’) and some novels (for example, Moby Dick) have laid claim to being tragedies, or at least to being tragic, explicated as a type of plot or as a way of seeing the ...
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Greek Tragedy, American Tragedy
Reviews in American History, 1983Ronald W. Pruessen, Lawrence S. Wittner.
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