The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy.

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Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore tragedy and its power to gratify readers and audi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gould, Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
Temas:
To 1500
Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Poetics > History > To 1500.
Suffering in literature.
Sympathy in literature.
Literature > Philosophy.
Pathos in literature.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Tragédie grecque > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Souffrance dans la littérature.
Sympathie dans la littérature.
Pathos dans la littérature.
Philosophie ancienne.
DRAMA > Ancient & Classical.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Literature > Philosophy
Pathos in literature
Philosophy, Ancient
Poetics
Suffering in literature
Sympathy in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore tragedy and its power to gratify readers and audiences. He takes as his starting point Plato's moral and psychological objections to tragedy, and the conflict he recognized between ""poetry""--The exploitation of our yearning to see ourselves as victims--and ""philosophy""--the insistence that all good people are happy. Plato's objections to tr
Descripción Física:1 online resource (347 pages)
ISBN:9781400861866
1400861861

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