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Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure ?

Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure ?

A.D. Nuttall
3.2/5 ( ratings)
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.
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Release
May 24, 2001
ISBN
0198187661
ISBN 13
9780198187660

Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure ?

A.D. Nuttall
3.2/5 ( ratings)
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.
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Release
May 24, 2001
ISBN
0198187661
ISBN 13
9780198187660

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