Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective.
- Author / Editor
- Gaskin, Richard.
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective.
- Published
- New York: Routledge, 2018.
- Physical Description
- ix, 412 pp.
- Series
- Routledge Research in Aesthetics.
- Description
- Considers tragedy from the perspective of analytical philosophy, arguing "that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering'; it "involves the balancing of a protagonist's suffering with guilt (and vice versa)," and the successful expression of "pain and suffering" is one of its principal and communal purposes. Considers a wide variety of theoretical and literary works, with recurrent commentary on Chaucer's depictions and descriptions of tragedy, especially in TC and MkT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseeyde
Monk and His Tale