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Tragedy and Theory: The Problem of Conflict Since Aristotle
By (Author) Michelle Zerba
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
809.9162
Paperback
314
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
539g
Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict. Isolating the centrality of conflict in twentieth-century definitions of tragedy, Professor Zerba discusses the efforts of modern critics to locate in Aristotle's Poetics the or