{"product_id":"the-art-of-tragedy-and-timothy-sharkey-9781479378715","title":"The Art of Tragedy and the Battle Against It","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art of Tragedy \u0026amp; the Battle Against It\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e explains the masterpieces of Western literature - our tragic dramas - in aesthetic terms. It disagrees with how our literary critics have explained our tragic dramas in moral terms throughout history. It illustrates the way that Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Arthur Miller, for example, created the dramatic and tragic impact in their plays with dramatic incongruity, a principle that works aesthetically. It disagrees with how our literary critics - Aristotle, Hegel, and A C Bradley, in particular - have removed this principle of dramatic incongruity and have replaced it instead with a logic of moral propriety. They have connected a tragic hero's catastrophe to the thing that he did wrong to cause it with his tragic flaw. As a result, they have precluded the possibility of incongruity existing in a catastrophe. \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Tragedy \u0026amp; the Battle Against It\u003c\/i\u003e, accordingly, explains how \u003ci\u003ePrometheus Bound, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo \u0026amp; Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Faust, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Death of A Salesman\u003c\/i\u003e produce their dramatic and tragic impact with dramatic incongruity. There is a conflict between our tragic poets who wrote their tragic plays aesthetically and our literary critics who have explained them morally. \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Tragedy \u0026amp; the Battle Against It\u003c\/i\u003e cites our tragic poets' ideas about incongruity from the dialog of their actual tragic plays. It contains full chapters on \"The Natural Order of Things,\" \"The Tragic Flaw Concept,\" \"The Object of the Drama,\" \"Tragic Pleasure,\" \"Irony,\" \"Catharsis,\" and \"The Sublime,\" among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Sharkey\u003c\/b\u003e (ALM, Harvard University) spent several years researching, writing, and developing the arguments for \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Tragedy \u0026amp; the Battle Against It.\u003c\/i\u003e He presents his best arguments now in a completely new and completely worked-out aesthetic theory of tragedy. It is fully researched with over 70 sources and 200 footnotes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease Note: the paperback version of \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Tragedy \u0026amp; the Battle Against It \u003c\/i\u003efeatures professional typography designed in the tradition of the Fine Press movement in England and America - especially the book designs of Bruce Rogers - and it uses Bruce Rogers' own Centaur typeface.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Sharkey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479378712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479378715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d","brand":"Timothy Sharkey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458659594495,"sku":"9781479378715","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_62adcda5-5428-4029-8e79-c6bb0333c712.jpg?v=1777405816","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-art-of-tragedy-and-timothy-sharkey-9781479378715","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}