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Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure
Author: A. D. Nuttall
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198187660
ISBN-10: 0198187661
Publication Date: 5/24/2001
Pages: 128
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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