The Ultimate Tragedy (Sila Abdulai)(Paperback)

The Ultimate Tragedy (Sila Abdulai)(Paperback)

The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of love and emerging political awareness in an Africa beginning to challenge Portuguese colonial rule. ]Ndani leaves her village to seek a better life in the capital, finding work as a maid for a Portuguese family. The mistress of the house, Dona Deolinda, embarks on

Tragedy: The Basics (McEvoy Sean)(Paperback)

Tragedy: The Basics is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to dramatic tragedy. A comprehensive guide for anyone undertaking a study of the genre, it provides a chronological overview and history of tragic theory. Covering tragedy from the classics to the present day, it explains the

The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. He declares it to be the expression of a culture which has achieved a delicate but powerful balance between Dionysian insight into the chaos and suffering which underlies

Rethinking Tragedy (Felski Rita)(Paperback)

This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics

From Triumph to Tragedy: The Chapecoense Story (Bell Steven)(Paperback)

From Triumph to Tragedy is the glorious, uplifting but ultimately tragic story of Chapecoense, the small-town Brazilian football club that made worldwide news following their meteoric rise from non-league to continental sensation.Yet the headlines that will be remembered centre on the air disaster

The Philosophy of Tragedy (Young Julian)(Paperback)

This book is an exhaustive survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present. From Aristotle to Zizek the focal question has been: why, in spite of its distressing content, do we value tragic drama? What is the nature of the 'tragic effect'? Some philosophers point to a certain kind

The Revenger's Tragedy (Gibbons Brian)(Paperback)

'Oh do not jest thy doom' The Revenger's Tragedy is an intense tragic burlesque. Its hero, Vindice, desires to avenge the death of his betrothed. Operating in disguises he provokes discord among his enemies so that they plot against each other. It is an anonymous masterpiece (the play was entered

The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy (Oppitz-Trotman George)(Paperback)

Investigates the figures and materials of English tragedy Key Features Establishes a new approach to the relationship between historical performance and printed literature Complicates the popular concept of metatheatre Offers boldly original readings of important English tragedies like Hamlet and

The Ancestry of Objects (Ryckman Tatiana)(Paperback)

A young woman contemplates the end of her life as she's known it as tragedy after tragedy accumulates around her, threaded with her relationship to desire, consent, and control

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (Zizek Slavoj)(Paperback)

The leading philosopher of our time tackles the demise of liberalism, from the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown. Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the

The Tragedy of Coriolanus: The Oxford Shakespeare the Tragedy of Coriolanus (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

Perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written, Coriolanus is a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics, and its Roman hero one of the most memorable Shakespeare ever created. The introduction to this new edition offers the first full stage history

Reap The Harvest (Dickinson Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Secrets . . . Tragedy . . . Love

Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction (Poole Adrian)(Paperback)

To your local anchorperson, the word tragedy brings to mind an accidental fire at a low-income apartment block, the horrors of a natural disaster, or atrocities occurring in distant lands. To a classicist however, the word brings to mind the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Racine;

White King - The Tragedy of Charles I (Lisle Leanda de)(Paperback / softback)

The Great Jazz Guitarists: The Ultimate Guide (Yanow Scott)(Paperback)

THE GREAT JAZZ GUITARISTS: THE ULTIMATE

My Promised Land - the triumph and tragedy of Israel (Shavit Ari)(Paperback / softback)

Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Oresteia (Aeschylus)(Paperback)

The Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy--the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. In this family history, Fate

American Pastoral (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

'A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel' The TimesDiscover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers. 'Swede' Levov is living the American

The Ultimate Gift (Stovall Jim)(Paperback)

ULTIMATE BMAT COLLECTION(Paperback)

The Ultimate BMAT Collection is your Complete Collection to achieving top scores on the BioMedical Admissions Test. Each copy of the Ultimate BMAT Collection also provides admission to one of our specialist BMAT courses completely free of charge! See inside your copy of the book for more

Star Wars: The Last Jedi the Ultimate Guide (Titan)(Paperback)

The Ultimate Souvenir Guide to Episode 8 of the epic Star Wars

The Ultimate Resource 2 (Simon Julian Lincoln)(Paperback)

Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, Julian Simon led a vigorous challenge to conventional beliefs about scarcity of energy and natural resources, pollution of the environment, the effects of immigration, and the 'perils of overpopulation.' The

Medea (Euripides)(Paperback)

The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers. These new translations are more than faithful