{"product_id":"sweet-violence-isbn-9780631233602","title":"Sweet Violence","description":"Terry Eagleton's \u003ci\u003eTragedy\u003c\/i\u003e provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the ancient world to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the idea of the 'tragic' across all genres of writing, as well as in philosophy, politics, religion and psychology, and throughout western culture.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the psychological, religious and socio-political implications and consequences of our fascination with the tragic.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. A Theory in Ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Value of Agony.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. From Hegel to Beckett.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Heroes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Freedom, Fate and Justice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Pity, Fear and Pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Tragedy and the Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Tragedy and Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Demons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Thomas Mann's Hedgehog.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Terry Eagleton’s titanic tryst with the Tragic muse crowns a career devoted to exploring the ideology of aesthetic and political form … This is a brave and bracing book that bridges Eagleton’s secular, socialist ideals with his metaphysical and theological aspirations: a remarkable comedic spirit hovers over this passionate reflection on the temper of tragedy.\" \u003ci\u003eHomi K. Bhabha, Harvard University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Sweet Violence\u003c\/i\u003e has all the characteristics that compel the reader, however tested and exasperated, to admire its author. It is long, discursive, packed with illustrations drawn from enormous reading in world literature, perverse and even, quite often, funny.\" \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Eagleton has raised a banner for a terrifying but beautiful new seriousness in the arts, directly drawn from our contemporary world. It is an extraordinary achievement and ... an inspiration.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The best book Terry Eagleton has yet written.\" \u003ci\u003eEnglish Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. His numerous works include \u003ci\u003eThe Illusions of Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eLiterary Theory: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (second edition, 1996), \u003ci\u003eThe Ideology of the Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), \u003ci\u003eScholars and Rebels in Nineteenth Century Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), and \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), all published by Blackwell, as are his dramatic writings, \u003ci\u003eSt Oscar and Other Plays\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and the \u003ci\u003eEagleton Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) edited by Stephen Regan. His memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Gatekeeper\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2002.  In this dazzling book Terry Eagleton provides a comprehensive study of tragedy, all the way from Aeschylus to Edward Albee, dealing with both theory and practice, and moving between ideas of tragedy and analyses of particular works and authors. This amazing tour-de-force steps out beyond the stage to reflect not only on tragic art but also on real-life tragedy. It explores the idea of the tragic in the novel, examining such writers as Melville, Hawthorne, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Manzoni, Goethe and Mann, as well as English novelists. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith his characteristic brilliance and inventiveness of mind, Eagleton weaves together literature, philosophy, ethics, theology, and political theory. In so doing he makes a major political–philosophical statement drawn from a startling range of Western thought, in the writings of Plato, St Paul, St Augustine, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Sartre and others.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book takes serious issue with the idea of ‘the death of tragedy’, and gives a comprehensive survey of definitions of tragedy itself, arguing a radical and controversial case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990120775909,"sku":"NP9780631233602","price":35.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631233602.jpg?v=1761786592","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/sweet-violence-isbn-9780631233602","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}