The tragic imagination in Shakespeare and Emerson /

What is the "tragic imagination"? And what role does it play in the works of William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson? Explaining the tragic imagination as a creative faculty employed to answer the perennial Riddle of the Sphinx, a theory of the world that advances human freedom and di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Amato, Andy (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2024].
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Philosophy. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Philosophy. Tragic, The, in literature. Imagination (Philosophy) Philosophy in literature.

Table of Contents:

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 A Silent Fool
2 The Riddle Is an Elegy
3 The Perpetual Messiah
4 Wiles of Innocence
5 A Fool Speaks
Notes
Preface
1 A Silent Fool
2 The Riddle Is an Elegy
3 The Perpetual Messiah
4 Wiles of Innocence
5 A Fool Speaks
Bibliography
Index