Beyond Genre: Short History of Tragedy in the Light of the Early Modern Normative Poetics Cover Image

S onu stranu žanra. Kratka povijest tragedije u svjetlu ranonovovjekovnih normativnih poetika
Beyond Genre: Short History of Tragedy in the Light of the Early Modern Normative Poetics

Author(s): Leo Rafolt
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses some of the major problems regarding the tragic genre in the early modern period as well as its perception in the pre-dominant normative poetics. The emphasis is on incomplete, often faulty interpretations of the Aristotle’s definition of tragedy as a genre and tragic as a mode, or type of discourse. The paper also addresses similarities between Aristotle’s and Horace’s understanding of tragedy and some structuralist and post-structuralist interpretations of the genre.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 183-220
  • Page Count: 38
  • Language: Croatian