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Achilles' Choice: Examples of Modern Tragedy
By (Author) David Lenson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
809.9162
Paperback
194
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
255g
Why, during the last two hundred years, when critical achievement in the field of tragedy has been outstanding, has there been little creative practice David Lenson examines the work of various writers not ordinarily placed in the tragic tradition--among them, Kleist, Goethe, Melville, Yeats, and Faulkner--and suggests that the tradition of traged