Course 2553 Tragedy: The Genre in History The
course considers the generic field of tragedy through the study of
drama, biography, and prose fiction. In historical scope, the readings
range from the sources of tragedy in ancient classical Greek drama,
to its early modern dramatic adaptations, to the reconfiguration of
tragedy as heroic romance, biography, and prose fiction since the
seventeenth-century. The course culminates in a consideration of tragedy
as a "new world" genre that becomes rooted in the historic
failure of European colonizers to recognize African and aboriginal
peoples as human.
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