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Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Passionate Political in the Modern Novel (Edinburgh Studies in Culture & Society)
Tragic Realism and Modern Society Passionate Political in the Modern Novel - Edinburgh Studies in Culture & Society
Author: John Orr
The author constructs a theory of the novel in the vein of the new "historicism" by drawing on the analysis of modern tragedy, as exemplified by Raymond Williams and Erich Auerbach, and using the varied insights of Mikhail Bakhtin, Northrop Frye and Rene Girard. This second edition of the book has been expanded to include a criticism of anti-mim...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780333464571
ISBN-10: 0333464575
Publication Date: 3/2/1989
Pages: 240
Edition: 2nd
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Paperback
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