Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138498082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 412 str.

Richard Gaskin

Opis

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering.

O autorze

Richard Gaskin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is the author of seven books including Horace and Housman (2013), Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism (2013), and The Unity of the Proposition (2008).