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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-24 - Publisher: Routledge

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First published in 1960, The Paradox of Tragedy raises the fundamental question, why do we enjoy tragic drama with its themes of death and disaster? Aristotle�
The Tragic Paradox
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Pages: 262
Authors: Leonard Moss
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-24 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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How do an author’s techniques establish the recurring paradox raised by the tragic genre? I have called upon the valuable arguments offered by Plato, Aristotl
Tragic Pathos
Language: en
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Authors: Dana LaCourse Munteanu
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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 criti
Suffering Art Gladly
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Pages: 271
Authors: Jerrold Levinson
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A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining the appeal of
Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato
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Authors: Rana Saadi Liebert
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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