Screen LibraryTragedy and redress in Western literature : a philosophical perspective /
This volume offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge research in aesthetics
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| Summary: |
This volume offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing of a protagonist's suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognised by recent critics, traditional tragedy represents suffering as incurred by avoidable and culpable mistakes of a cognitive nature. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 412 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [358]-403) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138498082 1138498084 |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Call Number: | I106/G248 |
| Contents: | Tragedy and moral redress -- Oedipus, Hamartia, freedom, and the supernatural -- Antigone's holy crime -- From cognitive failure to no-fault tragedy -- Tragedy and linguistic redress -- Theoretical considerations -- Can suffering be expressed in words? -- Tragedy and linguistic idealism. |