Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?

Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-120

  Nuttall, A D ^a  

^a NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aristotle; Art; Freud; Greek tragedy; Human nature; Nietzsche; Pleasure; Tragedy; Unreason

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EID: 84958642508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187660.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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