{"product_id":"rethinking-tragedy-rita-felski-9780801887406","title":"Rethinking Tragedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven new essays--as well as eight essays originally published in a \u003ci\u003eNew Literary History \u003c\/i\u003especial issue on tragedy--address important, previously neglected areas of tragedy and postcolonial criticism. The new material explores the tragic dimensions of popular culture, the relationship between tragedy and pity, and feminism's avoidance of the tragic, and includes an incisive history of tragic theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClassic and cutting-edge, this collection offers a provocative, accessible, and comprehensive treatment of tragedy and tragic theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich; Stanley Corngold, Princeton University; Simon Critchley, University of Essex; Joshua Foa Dienstag, University of California, Los Angeles; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University; Page duBois, University of California, San Diego; Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester; Rita Felski, University of Virginia; Simon Goldhill, Cambridge University; Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania; Michel Maffesoli, University of Paris (V); Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago; Timothy J. Reiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rita Felski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801887402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801887406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.89h x 6.16w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2008 pg. 295","brand":"Rita Felski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072782954751,"sku":"9780801887406","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_26129ce8-8079-4575-a726-da9886243b58.jpg?v=1685443931","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rethinking-tragedy-rita-felski-9780801887406","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}