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ISBN-13: 9781573093088
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
By Ann Bugliani
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Local release date: 07/03/1998
Format: Hardback (217.00mm X 140.00mm) 152 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Literature & literary studies [D]Literature: history & criticism [DS]Literary studies: general [DSB]

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Google Preview: This powerful study is based on the premise that literary theory is important because literature is important. Bugliani explores the intersection of tragedy with philosophy and psychoanalysis. A threefold purpose is evident: to examine the tension between philosophy and literature, to discuss the teaching of tragedy and finally to discuss that teaching in the works of Lacan, Marcel and, above all, Paul Claudel.; Ann Bugliani Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Loyola University, Chicago; Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - Chapter 1: Silencing the Gods - Chapter 2: Reading Paul Claudel ("The Muse Who Is Grace") - Chapter 2: Reading Paul Claudel ("The Muse Who Is Grace") - Chapter 3: What Tragedy Teaches (What Tragedy Teaches (What Tragedy Teaches / Literature, Ethics, and Psychoanalysis) - Chapter 4: Jacques Lacan Reads Paul Claudel (The Hostage / Hard Bread / The Humiliated Father) - Chapter 5: Tragic Wisdom (Introduction to Gabriel Marcels Thought / Tragic Wisdom) - Chapter 6: Dramatic Creation (Gabriel Marcel on Dramatic Creation / Paul Claudel on Dramatic Creation) - Chapter 7: Gabriel Marcel Reads Paul Claudel - Chapter 8: Conclusion (The Prophetic Phenomenon / Creativity) - Bibliography - Index.; Google Preview content