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Synopsis
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.
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About the Author
A. D. Nuttall is Professor of English and Fellow at New College, Oxford.
Review
"This delightful little book not only attracts the reader with its enigmatic title, it ensnares her into following its argument like a detective story, whose solution is not disclosed before its final pages. In a style more reminiscent of poetry than a philological treatise it deserves to be handled with care...."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0198183712
- ISBN 13 9780198183716
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages120
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