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The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature

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Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: The Vanguard Press
Year: 1972

Language: English
Pages: 276
City: New York

Contents......Page 12
Introduction: Forms of Tragic Literature......Page 14
1. The Tragedy of Existence: Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida......Page 22
2. The Tragedy of Imagination: Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra”......Page 50
3. Melville and the Tragedy of Nihilism......Page 72
4. Tragic and Comic Visions in The Brothers Karamazov......Page 98
5. Chekhov and the Theater of the Absurd......Page 128
6. Yeats: Violence, Tragedy, Mutability......Page 152
7. Tragic Rites in Yeats’s A Full Moon in March......Page 176
8. Art at the Edge of Impossibility: Mann’s “Dr. Faustus”......Page 202
9. Ionesco’s Dances of Death......Page 236
Notes......Page 264