Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: a Philosophical Perspective
- Submitting institution
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The University of Liverpool
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 14927
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138498082
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This substantial monograph (200,000 words approx.; pp. ix + 412) offers a unique, interdisciplinary interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition. Deploying the method of Analytic philosophy, and drawing on a detailed and comprehensive coverage of both primary and secondary sources, it argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. There is a special focus on Sophocles, but most other major tragic authors in the European tradition are examined, including Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, Seneca, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Büchner, Ibsen, Hardy, Kafka, Mann, Brecht, and neo-Latin authors.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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