Why does tragedy give pleasure?

Why does tragedy give pleasure? / A.D. Nuttall.

"Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering and death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? A.D. Nuttall's wide-...

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Main Author: Nuttall, A. D. (Anthony David)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Tragedy > Psychological aspects.
Pleasure.
Tragic, The.
Pleasure
Tragedy > Psychological aspects
Tragic, The
Tragedies.
Doodsdrift.
Genot.
King Lear (Shakespeare)
Psychoanalytische interpretatie.
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Table of Contents:
  • Aristotle and after
  • Enter Freud
  • The game of death
  • King Lear.

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