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Suffering Art Gladly : The Paradox of Negative Emotion in Art / by Jerrold Levinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levinson, Jerrold, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Arts.
- Emotions.
- Emotion.
- Local Subjects:
- Aesthetics.
- Arts.
- Emotion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 artworks whose appreciation entails negative or difficult emotions on the appreciator's part - what has traditionally been known as "the paradox of tragedy".
- Contents:
- Historical perspectives. Tragic pleasures in Plato and Aristotle / Pierre Destrée
- The paradox of negative emotion in art in enlightenment aesthetics / Carole Talon-Hugon
- A lust of the mind: curiosity and aversion in 18th century British aesthetics / Carolyn Korsmeyer
- Mere suffering: Hume and the problem of tragedy / Christopher Williams
- The problem and promise of the sublime: lessons from Kant and Schopenhauer / Sandra Shapshay
- Contemporary perspectives. A simple solution to the paradox of negative emotion / Raf DeClercq
- Painful art and the limits of well-being / Aaron Smuts
- That obscure object of desire: pleasure in painful art / Jonathan Gilmore
- Playing with fire: art and the seductive power of pain / Iskra Fileva
- Poetic pains: how poetry hurts and heals / Anna Ribeiro
- Negative emotions and creativity / Derek Matravers
- Attention, negative valence, and tragic emotions / Cain Todd
- Watching the unwatchable: 'irreversible', 'empire', and the other paradox of negative emotions / David Davies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Destrée, Pierre. Tragic pleasures in Plato and Aristotle.
- ISBN:
- 9781349345984
- 1349345989
- 9781137313713
- 1137313714
- OCLC:
- 880439549
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