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The Gorgon's Head
William R. Brashear deals with tragedy, not as a dramatic literary genre, but as a basic way of experiencing the universe and of reacting to it. The writer of tragedy forces readers to confront much more than a tragic flaw in a single character; he forces them to confront the gorgon's head itself, the ultimate chaos of the universe. For him, Aristotle's intellectualization of tragedy distorted it for centuries because the tragic sense of life is experiential and intuitive rather than logical and syllogistic. In the later works of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Spangler, Brashear finds the beginnings of the understanding of tragedy that developed in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature....
The Desolation of Reality
In the temper of Pascal and Unamuno, this is an original study in perspective and what the author refers to as the "ultimate frame of reference" - the infinite backdrop to all that is and seems. In the context of this always receding periphery Brashear sets and appraises the human condition and views in this widest of perspectives two of the most prominent notions or fictions influencing the course and evolution of "civilized order," namely the "pursuit of freedom" and "the pursuit of happiness." Against the emptiness of the desolation to which this probing leads he recommends that the wise man wear mental bifocals, looking alternately at the near and at the far, and that he adopt a stance of "tragic humanism" in which man's absolute insignificance is acknowledged but not accepted.
Critical Companion to Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller, best known for his works The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, is one of America's most important dramatists.
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The Hopwood Awards
Collects poetry and prose by renowned writers who won Hopwood Awards when they were students at the University of Michigan
The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families
Reprint, with additional material, of the 1950 ed. published in 7 v. by the Waynesburg Republican, Waynesburg, Pa., and in this format in Knightstown, Ind., by Bookmark in 1977.
A World of Possibilities
A study of how romantic irony characterizes works, in various genres, by Carlyle, Thackeray, Browning, Arnold, Dickens, Tennyson, and Pater. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
