Impossible Representation: Edward Albee and the End of Liberal Tragedy
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Abstract
In Modern Tragedy, Raymond Williams expounds on the democratization of the tragic hero and the emergence of a literary formula that focused exclusively on the moral or ethical predicaments of the individual, whose private, quasi-transcendental suffering gained prestige in works by Henrik Ibsen and Arthur Miller. This essay argues that Edward Albee's 2002 play The Goat; or Who is Sylvia? poses a challenge to this liberal formula for tragic theatre and critiques the predominant paradigm of American political life that it embodies. As a dramatic experiment that documents the rupture of the fabric of a family, The Goat tests the limits of generic accommodation, powerfully connecting the event of genre renovation to political regeneration. Albee's deliberations on perversion and hysteria, comic seriousness, and political self-knowledge call into question the legitimacy of liberal contractarianism, illustrating how liberalism is, itself, experienced as contingent and deeply inadequate.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it