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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gould, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sympathy in literature.
Suffering in literature.
Poetics.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Pathos in literature.
Literature > Philosophy.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
DRAMA > Ancient & Classical.
Philosophie ancienne.
Pathos dans la litterature.
Sympathie dans la litterature.
Souffrance dans la litterature.
Tragedie grecque > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Poetics > History > To 1500.
Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781400861866

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