Henry Ansgar Kelly

Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages

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'Tragedy' has been understood in a variety of conflicting ways over the centuries, and the term has been applied to a wide range of literary works. In this book, H. A. Kelly explores the various meanings given to tragedy, from Aristotle's most basic notion (any serious story, even with a happy ending), via Roman ideas and practices, to the middle ages, when Averroes considered tragedy to be the praise of virtue but Albert the Great thought of it as the recitation of the foul deeds of degenerate men. Professor Kelly demonstrates the importance of finding out what writers like Horace, Ovid, Dante and Chaucer meant by the term, and how they used… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Boyde, Patrick (Hrsg.) / Minnis, Alastair (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-521-43184-2
EAN: 9780521431842
Produktnummer: 9565163
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 276 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.0 cm 581 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 581

Über den Autor

Henry Ansgar Kelly is Distinguished Research Professor in the Division of the Humanities at UCLA. He is the author of The Devil, Demonology, and Witchcraft (2004), The Devil at Baptism (2004), and Satan: A Biography (2006).