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Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?

by Nuttall, A. D.

1996 110 pages eng

The Tragic Pleasure Tragedy Psychological aspects

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? A. D. Nuttall's wide-ranging, l…

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