Tragic pleasure from Homer to Plato / Rana Saadi Liebert.
Tragic pleasure from Homer to Plato / Rana Saadi Liebert.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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G 2018/5424
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English
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Physical content
ix, 218 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: the pleasure of tragedy -- The taste of archaic poetry -- Emotional satisfaction in archaic poetry -- Tragic pleasure in Plato's Republic -- Epilogue: poetry and privacy: towards an Aristotelian defense of poetry and a Platonic alternative.
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2017.
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"This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequent emergence as a philosophical problem in Plato's Republic. Socrates' claim that tragic poetry satisfies our 'hunger for tears' hearkens back to archaic conceptions of both poetry and mou...
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Tragic pleasure from Homer to Plato / Rana Saadi Liebert.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2017
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G 2018/5424
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74VKV8MJQa3l
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8MJQa3l
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ISBN
1107184444 (hardcover)
9781107184442 (hardcover)
DDC
882.0109
MMS ID
991024187598402626
