Rowan Williams (Cambridge Magdalene College)

The Tragic Imagination

The Literary Agenda

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Produktbeschreibung

Rowan Williams explores the definition of the tragic as a mode of narrative, in this short and thought-provoking volume. He turns to subjects including the role of irony in tragedy, the relationship between tragedy and political as well as religious rhetoric, common ground between tragedy and comedy, and the complex place of theology in the debate.

Produktdetails

• The Literary Agenda
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 136mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9780198736417
• ISBN-10: 019873641X
• Artikelnr.: 45791959

Autorenporträt

Rowan Williams is Master at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Handling danger: the political roots of tragedy
2: Acknowledgement and hiddenness: what does tragedy make us know?
3: Reconciliation and its discontents: thinking with Hegel
4: Absolute tragedy and moral extremity
5: Tragedy against pessimism: religious discourse and tragic drama
6: Conclusions