...Alberto Toscano Foucault returned to the text of Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannos at various critical junctures in his thought. This article homes in on the place of that tragedy in the passage from the analytic of knowledge-power to the problematization of government by truth that took place around...

...Louise O. Fradenburg Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Louise O. Fradenburg My Worldes Blisse : Chaucer s Tragedy of Fortune How can Chaucer s poetry help us think about domestic tragedy, a genre believed by its own practitioners to have appeared in the early eigh­ teenth...

...Joe Cleary Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 joe Cleary Domestic Troubles: Tragedy and the Northern Ireland Conflict ^Xtmestic tragedy, conventionally associated with the sensibility ofthe emergent metropolitan middle classes, has never been held in very high esteem by Marxian...

...Julie A. Carlson Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Julie A. Carlson Like Me: An Invitation to Domestic/Tragedy All tragedy is a family matter. -Jean-Francois Lyotard, Political Writings To propose a volume on domestic/tragedy is to believe that Westerners can get somewhere...

...Michael Valdez Moses Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Michael Valdez Moses Agon in the Marketplace: The Mayor of Casterbridge as Bourgeois Tragedy Even bourgeois and pseudo-Marxist vulgar sociol­ ogy have not got round to inventing the sub-genre of the tragic novel. Georg...

...Laurence Shore Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 The Poverty of Tragedy in Historical Writing on Southern Slavery Laurence Shore It is generally accepted that the history of the South contains the elements of tragedy. Countless critics explain that the Southern Literary...

...Rolf Soellner The High Design: English Renaissance Tragedy and the Natural Law . By Herndl George C. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1970 . Pp. 337 . $8.00 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Book Reviews 423 could be thoroughly revised...

...Ralph Nash Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 A Scholiastic Distinction Between Tragedy and Comedy Ralph Nash In his attempt at reconstructing An Aristotelian Theory of Comedy (New York, 1922) Lane Cooper had occasion to list several hints of a theory respecting the end of comedy...

...William R. Brashear Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The Power of Negative Thinking: An Essay on Tragedy William R. Brashear I The tragedian, though never a cynic or sceptic, can be described as a negative thinker negative in a special, even perverse sense. This is a sense...

...Merle M. Bevington Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph . By Johnson Edgar . New York : Simon and Schuster , 1952 . 2 vols. Pp. xxx , 1159 , cxcvii . $10.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 147 Browns commenced to manufacture iron...

...Edouard Roditi Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 THE GENESIS OF NEOCLASSICAL TRAGEDY EDOUARD RODITI ONE OF THE KEY concepts of Renaissance aesthetics was the doctrine of imitation of the Ancients; it produced neoclassicism in Latin nations, which attempted to imitate Greece...

...Harold William Miller Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 GREEK TRAGEDY, ORATORIO, AND OPERA HAROLD WILLIAM MILLER I AT THE END OF the sixteenth century, in the city of Florence, xjL there met at the house of the Bardi, a group of men of letters and musical dilettanti, thoroughly...

...Michael Bérubé 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Michael Bérubé The Eighteenth Brumaire of George W. Bush: Campaign 2004 as Tragedy and Farce When I first proposed this essay to SAQ, I had nothing more than a title and a conviction...

...Paull F. Baum The Language of Tragedy . By Prior Moody E. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1947 . Pp. viii , 411 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 BOOKS The Language of Tragedy. By Moody E. Prior. New York: Co­ lumbia University Press, 1947. Pp...

...Theodore Ropp The War We Lost: Yugoslavia’s Tragedy and the Failure of the West . By Fotitch Constantin . New York : The Viking Press , 1948 . Pp. viii , 344 . $3.50 . The Struggle Behind the Iron Curtain . By Nagy Ferenc . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1948 . Pp...

...Larry S. Champion Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare’s Romances . By Uphaus Robert W. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1981 . Pp. ix , 150 . $13.00 . 232 The South Atlantic Quarterly Beyond...

...F. E. Bowman The Yale Shakespeare: “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet . Edited by Hosley Richard . Pp. viii , 174 . Measure for Measure . Edited by Harding David . Pp. viii , 131 . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1954 . $1.50 each. Copyright © 1955 by Duke...

...William L. Neumann The Tragedy of American Diplomacy . By Williams William Appleman . Cleveland : World Publishing Co. Pp. 219 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 484 The South Atlantic Quarterly Bulwer s contemporaries were deluded into thinking...

...Richard N. Current Civil War in the Making, 1815-1960 . By Craven Avery O. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1959 . 115 pp. $3.00 . The American Tragedy: The Civil War in Retrospect . By Craven Avery O. Vandiver Frank E. . With an introduction...

...Victor H. Strandberg The Revenger s Tragedy: Hamlet s Costly Code Victor II. Strandberg By the time Shakespeare s Hamlet was produced around 1600, over fifteen centuries had elapsed since the Crucifixion and its epochal promulgation of the ideal of forgiveness over the revenge code. And two whole...