Tragicomic Redemptions
Author: Valerie Forman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008-07-23
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0812240960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKValerie Forman contends that three seemingly unrelated domains—new economic theories and practices; the discourses of Christian redemption; and the rise of tragicomedy as the stage's most popular genre—were together crucial to the formulation of a new and paradoxical way of thinking about loss and profit in relationship to one another.