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The edge of impossibility : tragic forms in literature
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Miss Oates examines the work of such writers as Chekhov, Melville, Yeats, and Toresco in this study.
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- Creator
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Vanguard Press, [1972]
- ©1972
- Physical Details
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- 259 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0814906753, 9780814906750
- OCLC
- ocm00354788, ocm00354788
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction: Forms of tragic literature -- The tragedy of existence: Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida -- The tragedy of imagination: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra -- Melville and the tragedy of nihilism -- Tragic and comic visions in The brothers Karamazov -- Chekhov and the theater of the absurd -- Yeats: violence, tragedy, mutability -- Tragic rites in Yeats's A full moon in March -- Art at the edge of impossibility: Mann's Dr. Faustus -- Ionesco's dances of death