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Tragic Pleasures
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Author : Elizabeth S. Belfiore
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Tragic Pleasures written by Elizabeth S. Belfiore and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Performing Arts categories.
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 culture in general. In Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Politics, and the ethical, psychological, logical, physical, and biological works, Belfiore finds extremely important but largely neglected sources for understanding the elliptical statements in the Poetics. The author argues that these Aristotelian texts, and those of other ancient writers, call into question the traditional view that katharsis in the Poetics is a homeopathic process--one in which pity and fear affect emotions like themselves. She maintains, instead, that Aristotle considered katharsis to be an allopathic process in which pity and fear purge the soul of shameless, antisocial, and aggressive emotions. While exploring katharsis, Tragic Pleasures analyzes the closely related question of how the Poetics treats the issue of plot structure. In fact, Belfiore's wide-ranging work eventually discusses every central concept in the Poetics, including imitation, pity and fear, necessity and probability, character, and kinship relations. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure
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Author : A. D. Nuttall
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2001-03-29
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure written by A. D. Nuttall and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? A. D. Nuttall's wide-ranging, lively and engaging book offers a new answer to this perennial question. The 'classical' answer to the question is rooted in Aristotle and rests on the unreality of the tragic presentation: no one really dies; we are free to enjoy watching potentially horrible events controlled and disposed in majestic sequence by art. In the nineteenth century, Nietzsche dared to suggest that Greek tragedy is involved with darkness and unreason and Freud asserted that we are all, at the unconscious level, quite wicked enough to rejoice in death. But the problem persists: how can the conscious mind assent to such enjoyment? Strenuous bodily exercise is pleasurable. Could we, when we respond to a tragedy, be exercising our emotions, preparing for real grief and fear? King Lear actually destroys an expected majestic sequence. Might the pleasure of tragedy have more to do with possible truth than with 'splendid evasion'?
A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Source Of The Pleasures Derived From Tragic Representations
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Author : Martin M'Dermot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1824
A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Source Of The Pleasures Derived From Tragic Representations written by Martin M'Dermot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1824 with Acting categories.
A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Source Of The Pleasures Derived From Tragic Representations Preceded By A Critical Examination Of The Various Theories Adopted On The Subject By The English Frech And German Philosophers
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Author : Martin M'Dermot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1824
A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Source Of The Pleasures Derived From Tragic Representations Preceded By A Critical Examination Of The Various Theories Adopted On The Subject By The English Frech And German Philosophers written by Martin M'Dermot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1824 with categories.
Tragic Pleasure From Homer To Plato
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Author : Rana Saadi Liebert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Tragic Pleasure From Homer To Plato written by Rana Saadi Liebert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Electronic books categories.
"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 subsequent emergence as a philosophical problem in Plato's Republic. Socrates' claim that tragic poetry satisfies our 'hunger for tears' hearkens back to archaic conceptions of both poetry and mourning that suggest a common source of pleasure in the human appetite for heightened forms of emotional distress. By unearthing a psychosomatic model of aesthetic engagement implicit in archaic poetry and philosophically elaborated by Plato, this volume not only sheds new light on the Republic's notorious indictment of poetry, but also identifies rationally and ethically disinterested sources of value in our pursuit of aesthetic states. In doing so the book resolves an intractable paradox in aesthetic theory and human psychology: the appeal of painful emotions"--
The Sublime Pleasures Of Tragedy
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Author : William Price Albrecht
language : en
Publisher: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 1975
The Sublime Pleasures Of Tragedy written by William Price Albrecht and has been published by Lawrence : University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tragic Pathos
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Author : Dana LaCourse Munteanu
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-11-10
Tragic Pathos written by Dana LaCourse Munteanu and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-10 with Literary Collections categories.
Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies by contemporary philosophers, providing insights into the ethical and social implications of the emotions.
Aristotle On The Function Of Tragic Poetry
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Author : Gregory Michael Sifakis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Aristotle On The Function Of Tragic Poetry written by Gregory Michael Sifakis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Greek drama (Tragedy) categories.
Tragic Pleasure From Homer To Plato
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Author : Rana Saadi Liebert
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-07
Tragic Pleasure From Homer To Plato written by Rana Saadi Liebert and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-07 with Literary Collections categories.
This book uses Greek poetry and Plato's philosophy to explain the appeal of tragedy and explore the non-cognitive value of aesthetic engagement.
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure
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Author : Anthony David Nuttall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure written by Anthony David Nuttall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Pleasure categories.
Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? A.D. Nuttall's work offers answers to this perennial question.