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Notions of the Tragic in Western Literature, Part 1 of 4

Posted on May 29, 1983 by Steve Weiss

Peter Burian, Eugene Falk, Peter Smith, and Robert ter Horst discuss ways in which modern understandings of tragedy are altogether different from notions of the tragic in ancient Greek drama.  Yet connections persist between conceptions of tragedy in antiquity and modernity. … Continue reading →

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