TY - JOUR AU - Cristina Savettieri PY - 2017/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Trouble of Innocence: Tragedy, Theory and the Modern Novel JF - Between JA - BW VL - 7 IS - 14 SE - Roots of the Tragic DO - 10.13125/2039-6597/3067 UR - https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/3067 AB - This article is divided into a premise and two parts: in the first, the author discusses how, from Aristotle’s Poetics onwards, tragic theory and criticism have tackled the issue of innocence and undeserved suffering; in the second, by analyzing the conventional opposition between tragedy and the novel, the author claims that the idea of the novel as an anti-tragic genre stems from a substantially anti-tragic idea of tragedy itself, which proves very resilient in modern theories. Undeserved suffering is then discussed as a conceptual means to overcome this theoretical stalemate. ER -