Sweet Violence: The Idea of the TragicTerry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the ancient world right down to the twenty first century. A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists. Explores the idea of the 'tragic' across all genres of writing, as well as in philosophy, politics, religion, and psychology, and throughout western culture.