This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.Not only does Othello destroy by wanting to preserve, but he also destroys no longer as a victim of lago, but as a victim of himself. The divine irony that stood opposite the tragic hero in antiquity is replaced in the Baroque by the irony of the anbsp;...
Title | : | An Essay on the Tragic |
Author | : | Peter Szondi |
Publisher | : | Stanford University Press - 2002 |
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