Hi,
Is the parenthesized chunk saying that whenever the predestination occupy the narrative we cannot have tragic style because those who has already has a tragic fate cannot die tragically?!!!
"In all of these patterned narrations, the motif of the immanent supernatural is centre stage, whether played for comedy or for epic (the tragic mode is unavailable where narrative is haunted by predestination: those who are fated cannot live or die tragically)."
Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies, chapter two: The Supernatural in Neo-baroque Hollywood, by Sean Cubitt
Is the parenthesized chunk saying that whenever the predestination occupy the narrative we cannot have tragic style because those who has already has a tragic fate cannot die tragically?!!!
"In all of these patterned narrations, the motif of the immanent supernatural is centre stage, whether played for comedy or for epic (the tragic mode is unavailable where narrative is haunted by predestination: those who are fated cannot live or die tragically)."
Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies, chapter two: The Supernatural in Neo-baroque Hollywood, by Sean Cubitt