Book: Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure ? 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.
Details of Book: Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure ? Book: Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure ?
Author: A. D. Nuttall
ISBN: 0198187661
ISBN-13: 9780198187660
, 978-0198187660
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 29032001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Number of Pages: 124
Language: English