The literature of pity /

Pity represents a combination of fear, helplessness and overwhelming agitation. It is a term which suffuses our everyday lives; it is also a dangerous term hovering between approval of sympathy and disapproval of emotional wallowing (as in 'self-pity'). This book traces an entire history o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Punter, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Sympathy in literature.
Sympathy.
Sympathie dans la littérature.
Sympathie.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Sympathy
Sympathy in literature
Begriff
Englisch
Literatur
Substantiv
pity
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page; Copyright; Contents; Plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Distinguishing Pity; 2 Pity and Terror: The Aristotelian Framework; 3 Pietà; PLATES; 4 Shakespeare on Pity; 5 The Eighteenth Century; 6 Blake: 'Pity would be no more . . .'; 7 Aspects of Victoriana; 8 Chekhov and Brecht: Pity and Self-Pity; 9 'War, and the pity of War': Wilfred Owen, David Jones, Primo Levi; 10 Reflections on Algernon Blackwood's Gothic; 11 Pity's Cold Extremities: Jean Rhys and Stevie Smith; 12 Reclaiming the Savage Night; 13 'Pity the Poor Immigrant': Pity, Diaspora, the Colony; 14 Lyric and Pity.
  • After Thought: Under the DomeNotes; Bibliography; Index.

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