...character of these lives. Such stories have the structure of tragedy as defined by George Steiner: Tragic drama tells us that the spheres of reason,...technical resources will enlarge their relevance. . . . Call it what you will: a hidden or malevolent God, blind fate, the solicitations of hell, or...

...narrative because tragic plots are derived from the timeless moral dilemmas of the human condition. 'Tragic drama tells us that the spheres of reason,...technical resources will enlarge their relevance', he writes in The Death of Tragedy.^ 2 Relinquishing responsibility for any atrocities, Steiner sees...

...(8. 523-27). "This is a mere simile", Lewis remarks, "the sort of thing that happens every day." 18. "Tragic drama tells us that the spheres of reason,...technical resources will enlarge their relevance" (Steiner, Death of Tragedy, pp. 8-9). 19. Quoted by Mary Gerhart in The Holocaust as Interruption,...