Sentence examples for tragic fiction from inspiring English sources

Carson is writing specifically about Greek tragedy, works of tragic fiction, and of course a book like "Wave" is only too real.

"The Massacre at Chios" (1824; Louvre) transposes contemporary events into a realm of tragic fiction soon established unrestrainedly with such melodramatic works as "The Death of Sardanapalus" (1827; Louvre), a riot of brilliant colour and ebullient forms.

In the veiled analogies to Christ as outcast and redeemer in Light in August and in the more explicit Christology of A Fable (1954), in the pastoral serenity following the anguish and horror in Light in August, and in the high comedy of the last scene of Intruder in the Dust, Faulkner puts into tragic fiction the belief he stated in his Nobel speech: "I decline to accept the end of man".

That the tragedies of our own age happen in suburban semis, or on Travellers' sites, does not make them any less cathartic – and Ryan's choice of narrator, a character both deeply flawed and painfully guilty, shows him working in the great tradition of tragic fiction, his lonely adulteress coming to grief in the same shadowy spaces as Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina.

Those counterexamples are the relativity of taste (SOT) and the pleasure we take in tragic fiction (OT).

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When we speak of tragic endings in fiction, there are certain works that spring to mind instinctively, works of fiction whose endings have elevated them from ordinary to legendary.

With the occurrences last week, she feels that the "tragic ambience" of her fiction is in keeping with the times, she said.

While a writer's life seems idyllic, there are, perhaps, clues to the tragic sensibility of his fiction in his past.

David Foster Wallace's enormous masterpiece about a nearish future is a partly satirical, partly tragic sort-of-science fiction novel about addiction, tennis, politics, family, entertainment and many other themes of contemporary America.

As Heller points out, "We the Living" contains the only tragic ending in Rand's fiction.