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Tragic pathos : pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy / Dana LaCourse Munteanu.
LIBRA PA3136 .M86 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Munteanu, Dana LaCourse, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
- Greek drama (Tragedy).
- Pathos in literature.
- Sympathy in literature.
- Fear in literature.
- Aeschylus. Persae.
- Aeschylus.
- Aeschylus. Prometheus bound.
- Sophocles. Ajax.
- Sophocles.
- Euripides. Orestes.
- Euripides.
- Emotions (Philosophy)--History.
- Emotions (Philosophy).
- Aesthetics, Ancient.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "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 critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes a different purpose for the two emotions and mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding of them. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies by contemporary philosophers, providing insights into the ethical and social implications of the emotions"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Theoretical Views about Pity and Fear as Aesthetic Emotions: 1. Drama and the emotions: an Indo-European connection? 2. Gorgias: a strange trio, the poetic emotions; 3. Plato: from reality to tragedy and back; 4. Aristotle: the first 'theorist' of the aesthetic emotions; Part II. Pity and Fear within Tragedies: 5. An introduction; 6. Aeschylus: Persians; 7. Prometheus Bound; 8. Sophocles: Ajax; 9. Euripides: Orestes; Appendix: catharsis and the emotions in the definition of tragedy in the Poetics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780521765107
- 0521765102
- OCLC:
- 729346011
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