Here is presented a new theory of the origins of tragedy, based on its perceived kinship with mourning ritual. Mourners and tragic protagonists alike journey th

This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentiet

The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in