TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor, Kevin
AU  - Taylor,Kevin
TI  - Hans Urs Von Balthasar and the Question of Tragedy in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
SN  - 9780567216250
U1  - D06 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Balthasar and Tragedy ............1  Tragedy`s Revelatory Nature .............12  Tragedy and God ............23  Dionysus Over Plato ..........26  Christ the True tragic Hero ............29  Human  Suffering ..................32  The Influence of Hegel .......34  2. Balthasar`s Limited Conception of Tragedy ..........39  Balthasar`s Criteria for Authentic Tragedy ...........39  Tragedy after the Greeks ........42  Balthasar and Tragedy`s Future .........45  Tragedy` Indefinition .......50  3. Balthasar`s Critique of the Novel and the Return of the Native ...........57  Balthasar and the novel ..........58  The Return  of the Native .............67  4. The Mayor of Casterbridge and Prosaic Reality ............97  Balthasar`s Aristocratic Taste ............98  The Realistic Novel ...........109  The Mayor of Casterbridge ..............118  5. Tess of the D`urbervilles and its narrator ........137  Distance in Balthasar ..........138  Hardy`s Narratorial Closeness in Tess of the D`Urbervilles .........152  Balthasar`s Undramatic Theo-Drama .....174  6. Jude the Obscure and ignoble Suffering ......183  Tragic suffering and Balthasar ........184  Tradegy and Christology ..........194  Jude the obscure and Meaningless suffering ........195
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