Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy

by Mario Telò

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Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us from tragic suffering, or does the proximity to death tap into something more primal? Aristotle proposed catharsis, an emotional cleansing--or, in later interpretations, a sense of equilibrium--as tragedy's outcome, and Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, grand theorists of the forces of anti-mastery...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814257739

ISBN13:9780814257739

Release Date:November 2023

Publisher:Ohio State University Press

Length:322 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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