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dc.contributor.author | Corby, James | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-12T08:39:14Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-12T08:39:14Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Corby, J. (2017). Thinking through tragedy : critical distance and the law of genre. Journal for Cultural Research, 21(4), 368-382. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/22533 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article focuses on two problems associated with tragedy. One ancient: what is it that draws us to the dramatic presentation of events of terrible suffering and loss? And one modern: namely, that while tragedies are still performed and appreciated, little new tragedy is being written. It will be argued in relation to the second problem that the vitality of tragedy as a dramatic form requires a less rigid approach to what might be considered tragic. And in relation to the first problem it will be argued that this more expansive conception of tragedy will allow an understanding of the ‘pay-off’ of tragedy in a way that draws both on the tradition that focuses on tragedy as cathartic therapeutic, and on the tradition that sees it as a thought laboratory that allows ethical dilemmas to be posed and explored from different perspectives. This argument constitutes a two-fold dialectical synthesis (emotional and intellectual approaches to tragedy on the one hand and the technical and popular use of the word ‘tragedy’ on the other) and the effect of this is to facilitate an understanding of tragedy as establishing a ‘critical distance’ that sets the scene for the possibility of thinking. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Blanchot, Maurice -- Criticism and interpretation | en_GB |
dc.subject | English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism | en_GB |
dc.subject | English drama (Tragedy) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Tragedy | en_GB |
dc.subject | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragedies | en_GB |
dc.subject | Catharsis | en_GB |
dc.subject | Williams, Raymond -- Criticism and interpretation | en_GB |
dc.title | Thinking through tragedy : critical distance and the law of genre | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/14797585.2017.1370488 | - |
dc.publication.title | Journal for Cultural Research | en_GB |
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