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Melancholy and the Implosion of the Family in Early- and Post-Modern Tragedy
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Demeter, Jason M.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1208264666
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Year and Degree
2008, Master of Arts, University of Akron, English-Literature.
Abstract
This paper examines John Ford's Caroline tragedy Tis Pity She's a Whore (1633) in concert with the twenty-first century television program Six Feet Under. The thesis explores the nature of what I argue is a distinct subgenre of tragedy, a form that deals explicitly with melancholy as a familial affliction. In what I term the melancholic familial tragedy, melancholia is portrayed as pervasive, to varying degrees, among all members of a tight-knit domestic unit. Within this unit, depression and pathos herald inevitably gruesome climactic scenes of intra-familial violence and death.
Committee
Hillary Nunn, PhD (Other)
Alan Ambrisco, PhD (Committee Member)
Sheryl Stevenson, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
79 p.
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Literature
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Demeter, J. M. (2008).
Melancholy and the Implosion of the Family in Early- and Post-Modern Tragedy
[Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1208264666
APA Style (7th edition)
Demeter, Jason.
Melancholy and the Implosion of the Family in Early- and Post-Modern Tragedy.
2008. University of Akron, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1208264666.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Demeter, Jason. "Melancholy and the Implosion of the Family in Early- and Post-Modern Tragedy." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1208264666
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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