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Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?

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Zusatztext Review from previous edition shrewd and learned book Informationen zum Autor A. D. Nuttall is Professor of English and Fellow of New College, Oxford Klappentext 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? Nuttall's wide-ranging! lively! and engaging book offers a new answer to this perennial question. Writers discussed include Aristotle! Shakespeare! Nietzsche! and Freud. Zusammenfassung Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? A. D. Nuttall's work offers answers to this perennial question. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Aristotle and After 2: Enter Freud 3: The Game of Death 4: King Lear Index

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