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Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure ?

Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure ?

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0198187661
ISBN13: 9780198187660
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 24 2001
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
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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