Tragic pathos : pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy
Title:
Tragic pathos : pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy
JLCTITLE245:
Dana LaCourse Munteanu.
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Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages)
ISBN:
9781139190329
9781139187732
9781139028257
9781283378468
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Abstract:
"Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes a different purpose for the two emotions and mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding of them. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies by contemporary philosophers, providing insights into the ethical and social implications of the emotions"-- Provided by publisher.
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UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
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Contents:
Cover; TRAGIC PATHOS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; PREMISE AND PURPOSE; EMOTION: EMOTION AS RESPONSE TO TRAGEDY, TO ART(S); SOME SPECIFICATIONS: AESTHETIC EMOTIONS -- POLITICAL ANDETHICAL IMPLICATIONS; EMOTION AND THE LANGUAGE-GAME:CULTURAL UNITY AND VARIETY; A BRIEF REVIEW OF SCHOLARSHIP: PROBLEMS; Pity; FEAR. THE "ONTOLOGICAL" PROBLEM OF DRAMATIC FEAR; MORAL PROBLEMS OF ORDINARY FEAR: THEIR CONSEQUENCESFOR AESTHETIC FEAR; THE TWO AS PAIR; NOTES ON TERMINOLOGY: AESTHETIC OR MIMETIC? THE TERMSFOR PITY AND FEAR(S).
Methodology and structureA synopsis; PART I Theoretical views about pity and fear as aesthetic emotions; CHAPTER 1 Drama and the emotions: an Indo-European connection?; CHAPTER 2 Gorgias: a strange trio, the poetic emotions; 2.1 CONTEXT (A): PITY AND HATRED, GUIDED REACTIONSFOR GORGIAS' AUDIENCE (HEL. 7); 2.2 CONTEXT (B): SPEECH CAN STOP FEAR ANDINCREASE PITY (HEL. 8); 2.3 CONTEXT (C): POETRY AROUSES PITY, FEARFUL SHIVER, AND LONGING (HEL. 9); 2.4 CONTEXT (D): INCANTATIONS MAY BRING PLEASUREAND BANISH PAIN (HEL. 10); 2.5 CONTEXT (E): WORDS, LIKE MEDICINE, CAN INSPIRE FEAROR COURAGE (HEL. 14).
2.6 CONTEXT (F): FEAR AND IMAGINATION (HEL. 16 17); 2.7 IF THE SPECTATOR ACCEPTS THE "DECEPTION" OF TRAGEDY, ARE HIS EMOTIONS AUTHENTIC?; CHAPTER 3 Plato: from reality to tragedy and back; 3.1 THE PROBLEM WITH ORDINARY "FEAR" AND AESTHETIC FEAR; 3.2 AESTHETIC EMOTIONS: IMPURE PLEASURES, "FALSE" KNOWLEDGE; 3.3 PHILOSOPHICAL DRAMA AND THE TRANSFORMEDTRAGIC EMOTIONS; CHAPTER 4 Aristotle: the first "theorist" of the aesthetic emotions; 4.1 PITY AND FEAR AS RESPONSES OF THE AUDIENCEIN THE POETICS: AN IMPASSE; 4.2 PITY AND FEAR AS RESPONSES OF THE AUDIENCE:RHETORIC AND DRAMA.
4.3 AESTHETIC PITY: CREATING A VISION OFSUFFERING THROUGH SPEECH4.3.1 Seeing emotion: visual versus vision; 4.3.2 Conclusions on Pity. Fear. Transfer of emotion through Phantasia; 4.4 PROPER PLEASURE (OIKEIA HEDONE) FROM EMOTIONS; 4.4.1 Proper pleasure as a species of mimesis; 4.4.2 Proper pleasure supervening the "activity" of tragedy; 4.4.3 Painful emotions in pleasure: Oikeia hedone and the pleasures of memory and mourning; 4.5 PREDECESSORS AND SUCCESSORS. TIMOCLES. HOW ORIGINAL IS ARISTOTLE?; 4.6 GENERAL CONCLUSIONS; PART II Pity and fear within tragedies; CHAPTER 5 An introduction.
5.1 PURPOSE OF SURVEY5.2 PITY AND FEAR AS EXPRESSIONS OF INTERNAL AUDIENCES ANDTHE PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS (GORGIAS, PLATO, ARISTOTLE):A DIFFERENT EMPHASIS; 5.3 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PITY AND FEAR AS EXPRESSIONSOF INTERNAL AUDIENCES AND EXTERNAL (CONTEMPORARYATHENIAN) AUDIENCES; 5.3.1 Internal audiences as models for external audiences; 5.3.2 Linking internal audiences and external audiences: problems surrounding pity and fear; CHAPTER 6 Aeschylus: Persians; 6.1 A REVIEW OF INTERPRETATIONS; 6.2 PATRIOTIC PRIDE AND ITS COMPATIBILITY WITH TRAGIC PITY.
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