Tragedy gestures towards annihilation, but ends in an inception. The tragic form, no less, is governed by this selfsame logic of survival. This book brings together a set of twenty seven essays by two authors- different in tone and style, expression and insight, tempered by each author's timbre of thought - on the tenacity and survival of the originally impulses of tragic writing through the shaping and transfiguring influence of the ages. This suturing of ...
