Calcutta ReviewUniversity of Calcutta., 2001 |
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... tragic destiny is to be forced to be something other than what he innately is something spurious and distorted rather than genuine and natural . Though Giraudoux's vision of human destiny is fundamentally different from the metaphysics ...
... tragic destiny is to be forced to be something other than what he innately is something spurious and distorted rather than genuine and natural . Though Giraudoux's vision of human destiny is fundamentally different from the metaphysics ...
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... tragic action consisted of anything but the projection of fatality upon a chosen being " ) , 20 Tragedy , therefore , touches the bedrock of human existence - passion and death . The Greeks , said Giraudoux , well understood the ...
... tragic action consisted of anything but the projection of fatality upon a chosen being " ) , 20 Tragedy , therefore , touches the bedrock of human existence - passion and death . The Greeks , said Giraudoux , well understood the ...
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... tragic epiphany emerges out of this tragic devastation of " civilization " - through the act of defiance , the spirit of man is revealed in its elemental integrity and power . · More than the fantasical , then , it is the tragic ...
... tragic epiphany emerges out of this tragic devastation of " civilization " - through the act of defiance , the spirit of man is revealed in its elemental integrity and power . · More than the fantasical , then , it is the tragic ...
Contents
A Myth Dream and Night mare in | 1 |
Mindscripts | 21 |
The Exoneration of Oedipus | 37 |
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