Antigone on Your Knee
Terry Eagleton, 6 February 2020
A Cultural History of Tragedy: Vols I-VI
edited by Rebecca Bushnell.
Bloomsbury Academic, 1302 pp., £395, November 2019,978 1 4742 8814 9 Show More
edited by Rebecca Bushnell.
Bloomsbury Academic, 1302 pp., £395, November 2019,
“... of other media. We encounter it all the way from Taxi Driver and Mulholland Drive to The Diary of Anne Frank and Amy Winehouse, from the classical hubris of O.J. Simpson to the collective hubris of ecological disaster. With Freud and the existentialists, tragedy continues to colonise philosophy, as David Kornhaber points out. In a fluid, fragmented ... ”