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  1. Speaking Havoc
    Social Suffering and South Asian Narratives
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University of Washington Press, Seattle

    Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Who Owns Suffering? -- 1. Writing and Redemption -- 2. The Argument of Fiction -- 3. Murderous Fictions -- 4. The Momentary Pleasures of Reconciliation -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. more

    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
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    Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Who Owns Suffering? -- 1. Writing and Redemption -- 2. The Argument of Fiction -- 3. Murderous Fictions -- 4. The Momentary Pleasures of Reconciliation -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780295984889
    Series: Literary Conjugations
    Subjects: Communalism in literature; Motion pictures ; India ; History; South Asian literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism; Suffering in literature; Suffering in motion pictures; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (256 p)
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    ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Who Owns Suffering? ""; ""1. Writing and Redemption""; ""2. The Argument of Fiction""; ""3. Murderous Fictions""; ""4. The Momentary Pleasures of Reconciliation""; ""Coda""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

  2. The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore tragedy and its power to gratify readers and audiences. He takes as his starting point Plato's moral and psychological objections to tragedy, and the conflict he recognized between ""poetry""--The exploitation of our yearning to see ourselves as victims--and ""philosophy""--the insistence that all good people are happy. Plato's objections to tr

     

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  3. The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400861866; 1400861861
    Series: Princeton legacy library
    Subjects: DRAMA / Ancient & Classical; DRAMA / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Geschichte; Literatur; Philosophie; Greek drama (Tragedy); Poetics; Suffering in literature; Sympathy in literature; Literature; Pathos in literature; Philosophy, Ancient; Griechisch; Mitleid <Motiv>; Philosophie; Literatur; Poetik; Pathos; Tragödie
    Other subjects: Aristoteles (v384-v322); Plato (v427-v347)
    Scope: 347 pages
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    Cover; Contents; Part I: The Ancient Quarrel; 1. ""Philosophy"" in Socratism

    Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore tragedy and its power to gratify readers and audiences. He takes as his starting point Plato's moral and psychological objections to tragedy, and the conflict he recognized between ""poetry""--The exploitation of our yearning to see ourselves as victims--and ""philosophy""--the insistence that all good people are happy. Plato's objections to tr

  4. The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore... more

    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore tragedy and its power to gratify readers and audiences. He takes as his starting point Plato's moral and psychological objections to tragedy, and the conflict he recognized between ""poetry""--the exploitation of our yearning to see ourselves as victims--and ""philosophy""--the insistence that all good people are happy. Plato's objections to trag

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400861866
    Series: Princeton Legacy Library
    Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy) ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc; Poetics ; History ; To 1500; Suffering in literature; Sympathy in literature; Literature ; Philosophy; Pathos in literature; Philosophy, Ancient; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (347 p)
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    Cover; Contents; Part I: The Ancient Quarrel; 1. ""Philosophy"" in Socratism