The Art of Tragedy and the Battle Against It - Softcover

Sharkey, Timothy

9781479378715: The Art of Tragedy and the Battle Against It

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ISBN 10: 1479378712 ISBN 13: 9781479378715

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It explains the masterpieces of Western literature – our tragic dramas – in aesthetic terms. It disagrees with how our literary critics have explained our tragic dramas in moral terms throughout history. It illustrates the way that Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Arthur Miller, for example, created the dramatic and tragic impact in their plays with dramatic incongruity, a principle that works aesthetically. It disagrees with how our literary critics – Aristotle, Hegel, and A C Bradley, in particular – have removed this principle of dramatic incongruity and have replaced it instead with a logic of moral propriety. They have connected a tragic hero’s catastrophe to the thing that he did wrong to cause it with his tragic flaw. As a result, they have precluded the possibility of incongruity existing in a catastrophe. The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It, accordingly, explains how Prometheus Bound, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo & Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Faust, and Death of A Salesman produce their dramatic and tragic impact with dramatic incongruity. There is a conflict between our tragic poets who wrote their tragic plays aesthetically and our literary critics who have explained them morally. The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It cites our tragic poets’ ideas about incongruity from the dialog of their actual tragic plays. It contains full chapters on “The Natural Order of Things,” “The Tragic Flaw Concept,” “The Object of the Drama,” “Tragic Pleasure,” “Irony,” “Catharsis,” and “The Sublime,” among others.

Timothy Sharkey (ALM, Harvard University) spent several years researching, writing, and developing the arguments for The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It. He presents his best arguments now in a completely new and completely worked-out aesthetic theory of tragedy. It is fully researched with over 70 sources and 200 footnotes.

Please Note: the paperback version of The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It features professional typography designed in the tradition of the Fine Press movement in England and America – especially the book designs of Bruce Rogers – and it uses Bruce Rogers’ own Centaur typeface.

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A new interpretation of tragedy – from our tragic poets’ perspective – The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It explains how a tragedy works as art. It disagrees with how our literary critics have always explained a tragedy morally. It explains how a tragedy produces its dramatic and tragic impact from a violation of an audience’s expectation, from a principle of dramatic incongruity. It disagrees with how our literary critics have always explained a tragedy instead as a natural result of a tragic hero’s flawed activity, which satisfies an audience’s expectation. It cites the dramatic situations of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Goethe, and Arthur Miller, in their tragic plays, contradicting the literary theories of Aristotle, Hegel and A C Bradley, in particular. It has full chapters on “The Tragic Flaw Concept,” “The Natural Order of Things,” “The Object of the Drama,” “Tragic Pleasure,” “Irony,” “Catharsis,” and “The Sublime.” Timothy Sharkey (ALM, Harvard University) spent ten years researching, writing, and developing the arguments for The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It. He presents his arguments now, as an aesthetic interpretation of tragedy, in a way that completely contradicts and completely rejects our traditional, moral interpretation of tragedy, and its cornerstone, the tragic flaw concept.

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A new interpretation of tragedy from our tragic poets’ perspective, The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It explains how a tragedy works aesthetically, with a principle of dramatic incongruity. It disagrees with how our literary critics have traditionally explained a tragedy morally, with a logic of moral propriety. It disagrees with how our literary critics have traditionally explained a tragedy as a natural result of a tragic hero’s flawed activity. It presents our tragic poets’ ideas about how a tragedy produces its dramatic impact instead, as art, with a principle of dramatic incongruity. It considers our tragic poets’ ideas about how a tragedy works with this principle of dramatic incongruity the best information we have about how a tragedy really works. Timothy Sharkey (ALM, Harvard University) spent ten years researching, writing and developing the arguments for The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It in an effort to clean-up our confusion about tragic drama. He presents his arguments now, in a new interpretation of tragedy, in an aesthetic interpretation that has dramatic incongruity at its core, and he uses the comments of our tragic poets about how a tragedy works aesthetically, with a principle of dramatic incongruity – taken from the dialog of their plays – to support his arguments. He disagrees with our literary critics for this fundamental reason: they draw a link a link of act and consequence, or causal connection, between a tragic hero’s catastrophe and the thing that he did wrong to cause it with his flaw, thereby precluding the way that a tragedy works aesthetically. They preclude the way that a tragedy produces its impact upon an audience by pushing the connection between act and consequence (between a tragic hero’s heroic activity and his unfair treatment) apart dramatically, in the opposite direction. A tragedy produces its impact upon an audience in aesthetic terms by uniting unequal ingredients, not equal ingredients. This is what The Art of Tragedy & the Battle Against It explains. It traces our literary critics’ resistance to it from Aristotle up to our own present day.

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