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Title:

Edge of Impossibility, The
 

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Genres:

Non-Fiction
Criticism & Commentary

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1972-00-00 Vanguard  

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Blurb: 
In these essays the winner of the National Book Award and countless awards and accolades for her short stories turns her attention to the study of tragic forms in literature, examining such writers as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Melville, Dostoevski, Yeats, Thomas Mann, and Ionesco, and such themes as "The Tragedy of Existence," "The Tragedy of Imagination," and "The Tragedy of Nihilism." Having explored the tragic world of existence in her fiction, Miss Oates illuminates her thoughts, expanding them to the realm of timeless literature. The Edge of Impossibility is a book that belongs on all library shelves.