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Showing 1 to 20 of 476 for “"Tragedy"”.
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Revenge Tragedy
This manuscript of poetry attempts a lucid assault on pure affect, its words a formal effort to contain emotional intensity and energy while allowing no particular narrative to be believed. Characters include a lover and beloved, while through constellations of images the manuscript essays a sense …
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Talion: A tragedy
… fiction. Written within the spirit of classic tragedy, the tightly controlled plot and heightened tension, as well as the brutal violence, strives to create something more than your average detective novel. A literary and genre hybrid that is both entertaining and unusual, suspenseful and …
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Shadow Of tragedy
The architecture of tragedy is a complex and emotive topic that explores the ways in which design elements can be used to commemorate and remember significant events. This thesis aims to examine the role of architecture in the representation of tragedy, with a specific focus on how design elements …
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Balance : Lancaster County's tragedy
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania residents are proud of their agricultural heritage. They do not want to see their farmland disappear. But the County continues to be developed into residential subdivisions. This thesis explores the inconsistency in the perspectives and actions of residents regarding …
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Tragedy With a Vengeance: Violence, Vengeance and Identity From Attic Tragedy to Shakespeare
… in the soil of classical Attica, through Senecan tragedy, and into early modern drama in English. Classical and early modern tragedy is seductive in its sophisticated, savage portrayals of the relations between violence and who we are as human beings. In this study I explore these relations from a …
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Arthur Miller's concept of tragedy
… that symbolize best his own interpretation of tragedy. This approach is inconsistent, contradictory, and illogical; for it shows that the critics are examining Miller’s plays not as literary expressions unique in themselves but by standards which are far too often completely irrelevant to the …
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Dryden, Tragedy, and the Tradition
To discuss a type of literature such as tragedy is a dangerous and often quite a confusing business. To read the sometimes conflicting views of critics from Aristotle to Hume to Arthur Miller would lead the student to believe that, although tragedy exists, an objective and productive examination of …
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Despair in Some Elizabethan Tragedy
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Tragedy and the Younger Romantics
This thesis explores how tragedy was conceptualised in the Romantic period by focusing on the work of Byron, Keats, Mary Shelley, and P. B. Shelley, and their contemporaries. It argues for the centrality of tragedy to the work of these writers, and to British Romantic literary culture. I contend …
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Staging Anger in Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy
… reading of the key topoi in early modern revenge tragedy, this thesis investigates the ancient philosophical debate about anger in respect of violence and revenge. The through line of the argument is that the Roman philosopher Seneca’s dramatic and philosophical treatment of anger is privileged by …
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Patterns of Exile in Greek Tragedy
The argument that underlies the present study is that exile, defined as the exclusion from the social, religious and political life in the polis, constitutes in the tragic plays an exploration of civic identity by means of its opposite, reinforcing its importance through its very antithesis. This …
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Chain reaction: The tragedy of atomic governance
An unprecedented combination of imagination and capital resulted in the most profound, and profane, achievement in modern history--the atom bomb--but the strategies that empowered its development caused inestimable suffering in peacetime America. Discrete practices of secrecy, media manipulation, …
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Using and abusing children in Greek tragedy
Vulnerable children are crucial in Greek tragedy and to the philosophy of suffering that it explores. They attract high levels of emotional concern that spill over from the human arena into the divine. As a means of exposing the presence or absence of the power and influence of the gods, children …
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Selected twentieth-century American playwrights on tragedy
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Speech, 1958
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English bourgeois tragedy from 1576 to 1642
What is English bourgeois tragedy? What forces produced it, and what is its significance in the first great period of English drama? It is the purpose of this dissertation to answer these questions by a detailed study of bourgeois tragedy as it existed in England between 1576 and 1642, the dates of …
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