Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World Out of Joint

by Jennifer Wallace

Book Overview

We are living through tumultuous times, in which the discourse of the War on Terror draws upon terms that hark back to ancient notions of tragedy: heroes, sacrifice, good and evil. People respond to disaster in ways that have much in common with practices in tragic drama. What can we learn from the tradition of tragedy? And how can a literary attention to tragedy help us to analyse current dilemmas of citizenship, political responsibility, spectacle,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350035629
• ISBN13: 9781350035621
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"