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- catalog abstract ""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-ranging, lively, and engaging book offers a new answer to this perennial question." "The classical answer to the question is rooted in Aristotle, and rests on the unreality of the tragic presentation: no one really dies; we are free to enjoy watching potentially horrible events controlled and disposed in majestic sequence by art. In the nineteenth century, Nietzsche dared to suggest that Greek tragedy is involved with darkness and unreason, and Freud asserted that we are all, at the unconscious level, quite wicked enough to rejoice in death. But the problem persists: how can the conscious mind assent to such enjoyment? Strenuous bodily exercise is pleasurable. Could we, when we respond to a tragedy, be exercising our emotions, preparing for real grief and fear? King Lear actually destroys an expected majestic sequence. Might the pleasure of tragedy have more to do with possible truth than 'splendid evasion'?"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b9637285.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""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-ranging, lively, and engaging book offers a new answer to this perennial question." "The classical answer to the question is rooted in Aristotle, and rests on the unreality of the tragic presentation: no one really dies; we are free to enjoy watching potentially horrible events controlled and disposed in majestic sequence by art. In the nineteenth century, Nietzsche dared to suggest that Greek tragedy is involved with darkness and unreason, and Freud asserted that we are all, at the unconscious level, quite wicked enough to rejoice in death. But the problem persists: how can the conscious mind assent to such enjoyment? Strenuous bodily exercise is pleasurable. Could we, when we respond to a tragedy, be exercising our emotions, preparing for real grief and fear? King Lear actually destroys an expected majestic sequence. Might the pleasure of tragedy have more to do with possible truth than 'splendid evasion'?"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Aristotle and after -- Enter Freud -- The game of death -- King Lear.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 110 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Why does tragedy give pleasure?".
- catalog identifier "0198183712".
- catalog isFormatOf "Why does tragedy give pleasure?".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : b Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Why does tragedy give pleasure?".
- catalog subject "809.2/512/019 20".
- catalog subject "PN1892 .N88 1996".
- catalog subject "Pleasure.".
- catalog subject "Tragedy Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Tragic, The.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Aristotle and after -- Enter Freud -- The game of death -- King Lear.".
- catalog title "Why does tragedy give pleasure? / A.D. Nuttall.".
- catalog type "text".