The Tragic Vision

The Confrontation of Extremity
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3118-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Originally published in 1973. Literary critics who have studied tragedy and the tragic vision failed, in Murray Krieger's estimation, to define exactly what they saw as the tragic vision in general terms. An aim of his book is to create a tentative definition of tragic and to flesh out what the author sees as the definition most illuminating of modern literature and the modern mind. In order to do this, Krieger distinguishes between what he sees as the "tragic vision" and "tragedy"—tragedy, from his perspective, is an object's literary form, whereas tragic vision refers to a subject's psychology, the subject's view and version of reality. In light of the shriveling of the tragic concept in the modern world and the reduction of a total view to the psychology of the protagonist, Krieger contends that the protagonist in a tragedy is now more appropriately designated a "tragic visionary" than a "tragic hero."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krieger, Murray

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Chapter 1. Tragedy and the Tragic Vision
Chapter 2. Rebellion and the "State of Dialogue"
Chapter 3. Satanism, Sainthood, and the Revolution
Chapter 4. Disease and Health: The Tragic and the Human Realms of Thomas Mann
Chapter 5. The World of Law as Pasteboard Mask
Chapter 6. Joseph Conrad: Action, INaction, and Extremity
Chapter 7. The Perils of "Enthusiast" Virtue
Chapter 8. Recent Criticism, "Thematics," and the Existential Dilemma
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Krieger, Murray
Murray Krieger, until recently the first holder of the M. F. Carpenter Chair in Literary Criticism at the University of Iowa, is now a professor of English at the University of California at Irvine. His many books include Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign and Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text.

Murray Krieger is University Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. His works include The Play and Place of Criticism, The Tragic Vision, and The Classic Vision (all published by Johns Hopkins University Press).