Introduction: The Tragic Abyss Louise Cowan
Aristotle and the Tragic Bias / Robert S. Dupree
Tarrying with the Tragic: Hegel and His Critics / Bainard Cowan
The Mystery Doctrine of Tragedy: Nietzsche's Sublime / Glenn Arbery
Job and the Tragedy of Divine Love / Daniel Russ
Tragedy's Bloody Borders: The Oresteia / Louise Cowan
Bowing to the Wound: Philoctetes as a Tragedy of Compassion / Dennis Slattery
Through the Unlit Door of Earth: Sophocles' Transformation of Tragedy / Bainard Cowan
Fortune and Freedom: Euripides' Medea and Bacchae / Virginia Arbery
Fathoming "Cliffs of Fall Frightful": Hamlet's Mappings / Judith Stewart Shank
Notes on Dante's Commedia and the Renaissance Tragedy of Time / Mary Mumbach
King Lear and the Space of Ritual / Glenn Arbery
Intervals of Risk and the Tragic Action of Macbeth / James Walter
The Death of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music / Robert Dupree
The Strange Upward Draft in the Novel: Flaubert and Dostoevsky / Paul Connell
Blood in a Topaz Shrine: Lorca and the Tribal Imperative / Gregory Marks
The Tragedy of Inheritance in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha Novels / Larry Allums
Resisting the Tragic Self: The Apotropaics of Toni Morrison's Beloved / Kathleen Marks.
