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Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?

By A. D. Nuttall

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0198187661, 9780198187660
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2916488 bytes)
Pages
128\0
Time added
2017-09-18 20:00:55
Emotions;Mental Health;HealthFitness & Dieting;Tragedy;Dramas & Plays;Literatur

Description

Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering and 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? Nuttall's wide-ranging, lively, and engaging book offers a new answer to this perennial question. Writers discussed include Aristotle, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and Freud.

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