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Preface (1979) | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Prologue | |
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Plato: The Rival as Critic | |
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Before Plato | |
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Plato's references to the Big Three | |
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Republic 376-403 | |
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Republic VI-VII and X | |
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Plato as a tragic poet | |
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The Laws | |
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Aristotle: The Judge Who Knows | |
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Introduction to the Poetics | |
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Aristotle's definition of tragedy | |
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mimesis | |
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spoudaios (noble) | |
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"pity and fear"? | |
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catharsis | |
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The six elements - spectacle and thought | |
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plot and its primacy | |
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hamartia and hybrid | |
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happy end | |
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Toward a New Poetics | |
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Beyond Plato and Aristotle | |
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Imitation - and a new definition of tragedy | |
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The work's relation to its author | |
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The philosophical dimension | |
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The Riddle of Oedipus | |
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Three classical interpretations | |
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The historical context | |
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Man's radical insecurity | |
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Human blindness | |
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The curse of honesty | |
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The inevitability of tragedy | |
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Justice as problematic and the five themes | |
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Oedipus versus Plato | |
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Homer and the Birth of Tragedy | |
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How Homer shaped Greek tragedy | |
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The gods in the Iliad | |
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Neither belief nor dualism | |
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The matter of weight | |
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Man's lot | |
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Aeschylus and the Death of Tragedy | |
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Nietzsche and the death of tragedy | |
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What we know of Aeschylus | |
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Orestes in Homer | |
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Aeschylus' "optimism" | |
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How he is more tragic than Homer | |
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Character in the Iliad and Oresteia | |
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How tragedy did and did not die | |
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Sophocles: Poet of Heroic Despair | |
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Nietzsche and Sophocles' "cheerfulness" | |
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Hegel's "theory of tragedy" | |
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Ajax | |
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Antigone | |
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The Women of Trachis and Electra | |
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Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus | |
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Sophocles' "humanism" | |
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Euripides, Nietzsche, and Sartre | |
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In defense of Euripides | |
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Euripides' Electra | |
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Was Euripides an "irrationalist"? | |
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Nietzsche's influence on The Flies | |
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Are Dirty Hands and The Flies tragedies? | |
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Shakespeare and the Philosophers | |
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Testing the philosophers | |
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Aristotle and Shakespeare | |
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Hegel on Shakespeare | |
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Hume's essay "Of Tragedy" | |
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Schopenhauer on tragedy | |
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Nietzsche versus Schopenhauer | |
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Max Scheler and "the tragic" | |
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Tragedy Today | |
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Tragic events and "the merely pathetic" | |
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Can tragedies be written today? | |
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The Deputy as a modern Christian tragedy | |
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Tragedy versus history: The Deputy and Soldiers | |
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Brecht's Galileo | |
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The Confessions of Nat Turner | |
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The modernity of Greek tragedy; prospects | |
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Epilogue | |
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Chronology | |
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A Note on Translations | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |