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Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?
Language: en
Pages: 120
Authors: A. D. Nuttall
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-29 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? Is it because we see horrific m
Tragic Pleasures
Language: en
Pages: 429
Authors: Elizabeth S. Belfiore
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the Aristotelian corpus and in the context of Greek
Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Rana Saadi Liebert
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequ
The Birth of Pleasure
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Carol Gilligan
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08-12 - Publisher: Vintage

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The author of the classic In a Different Voice offers a brilliant, provocative book about love that has powerful implications for the way we live and love today
The Poetics of Aristotle
Language: en
Pages: 82
Authors: Aristotle
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-07 - Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama - comedy, traged