Holding the Man: Tragedy and the Literature of Aids

Alan G Sandison

Holding the Man: Tragedy and the Literature of Aids

Alan G Sandison

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Friedrick Nietzsche seems already to be defining Modernism when, well over a hundred years ago, he noted that the 'tropical tempo' of modernity was fragmenting traditional identities (qtd Weeks, 'Against Nature 92). Now even those fragments have become in the eyes of many, fictions, and humanistic notions of an impregnable selfhood and a bedrock identity are dismissed as essentialist wishful thinking. Such a development raises problems for an essay like this, the object of which is to examine the possibility of a revival of tragedy manifested in a certain sector of contemporary writing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Unemployed at Last! Essays on Australian Literature to 2002, for Julian Croft
Editors	Ken Stewart, Shirley Walker
Place of Publication	Armidale, Australia
Publisher	University of New England, Centre for Australian Studies (CALLS)
Pages	187-209
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9781863898133, 1863898131
Publication status	Published - 2002

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Holding the Man: Tragedy and the Literature of Aids. / Sandison, Alan G.
Unemployed at Last! Essays on Australian Literature to 2002, for Julian Croft. ed. / Ken Stewart; Shirley Walker. 1. ed. Armidale, Australia: University of New England, Centre for Australian Studies (CALLS), 2002. p. 187-209.

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