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TOWARDS TRAGEDY/RECLAIMING HOPE
LITERATURE, THEOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY IN CONVERSATION |
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Brian Phillips, Richard E. Sturm, Dr Douglas Gwyn |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0754607658 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780754607656 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
17 June, 2004 |
| Pages: |
186 |
| Description: |
Discarding the popular usage of the term today, US religious scholars, most associated with Quakers, explore the original and more nuanced sense of tragedy found in ancient Greek times and to the 17th century, finding it a particularly helpful lens through which to view, understand, and process the human journey. They argue that the literary genre |
| Synopsis: |
The 'death of tragedy' in the modern era has been proposed and debated in recent years, largely in terms of literature and western culture in general. Today, any catastrophe or misadventure is likely to be labeled a 'tragedy', without any inference of a larger, transcendent horizon or providential design that the word once conveyed. This book offers new perspectives on the idea of the 'death of tragedy', taking England and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in particular as a case study. Chapters focus on the origins of tragedy in ancient Greece, gospel and tragedy, the beginnings of the Quaker movement in seventeenth-century England, apocalyptic versus secularized experiences of time, Edwardian Quaker triumphalism, the search for English identity in postcolonial Britain, liberal Quakerism at the end of the twentieth century, and the promise and dilemma of postmodernity. The different disciplinary perspectives of the contributing authors bring literature, history, theology and sociology into a creative and revealing conversation. A Foreword by Richard Fenn introduces the book with an original and provocative meditation on tragedy and time. |
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UK |
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Ashgate Publishing Limited |
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