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Author:

Carney, Sean, 1970-

Title:

The politics and poetics of contemporary English tragedy / Sean Carney.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

vi, 346 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
English drama--20th century--History and criticism.
English drama--21st century--History and criticism.
Politics in literature.
Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Self in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

David Hare : the work of mourning, or, the agony and the ecstasy of the bourgeoisie -- Howard Barker : will and desire--from the tragedy of socialism to the ecstasy of the unconscious -- Edward Bond : tragedy and postmodernity, or, the Promethean impulse -- Caryl Churchill : the Dionysian Möbius strip -- New English tragedians : the tragedy of the tragic -- Conclusion : late modernism in Jerusalem.

ISBN:

1442613971 (paper)
9781442613973 (paper)
1442645733 (cloth)
9781442645738 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)795756579

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)