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Catharsis in Literature » Read Now
by Adnan K. Abdulla. 154 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library
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Irony in the Drama: An Essay on Impersonation, Shock, and Catharsis » Read Now
by Robert Boies Sharpe. 222 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond (Chap. 9 "Catharsis, Audience, and Closure in Greek Tragedy") » Read Now
by M. S. Silk. 566 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This important book of thirty new essays focuses on the crucial question: what makes tragedy, especially Greek tragedy, tragic? The contributors include many of the world's foremost scholars in the field of Greek drama. The book is accessible to readers with no knowledge of Greek and will be...
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This important book of thirty new essays focuses on the crucial question: what makes tragedy, especially Greek tragedy, tragic? The contributors include many of the world's foremost scholars in the field of Greek drama. The book is accessible to readers with no knowledge of Greek and will be essential reading for anyone interested in tragedy, especially students and specialists in classics, drama, and English literature.
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Tragedy: Modern Essays in Criticism ("Aristotle on Catharsis" begins on p. 252, and "'Catharsis': An Excision from the Dictionary of Critical Terms" begins on p. 290) » Read Now
by Laurence Michel, Richard B. Sewall. 340 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Galaxy Interpretations of American Literature . It is hoped that this selection will...Weisinger places the discussion of tragedy in its largest context and at the...
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Art and Analysis: An Essay toward a Theory in Aesthetics (Chap. IX "Imitation and Catharsis") » Read Now
by Edward G. Ballard. 224 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...in The Personalist ; "Toward a Philosophy for Literature" in The Hibbert Journal ; "The Un binding of Prometheus...8. Magic, Myth, and Art 137 9. Catharsis and Imitation...
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Reinventing Drama: Acting, Iconicity, Performance ("Catharsis" begins on p. 192) » Read Now
by Bruce G. Shapiro. 226 pgs.

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This book draws together critical and literary theories and neuropsychology to provide a new artistic process for dramatic performance called iconicity. The premise of iconicity is that in dramatic performance actors use the same neural architecture that people use in their daily lives to execute...
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This book draws together critical and literary theories and neuropsychology to provide a new artistic process for dramatic performance called iconicity. The premise of iconicity is that in dramatic performance actors use the same neural architecture that people use in their daily lives to execute events. The core of this neural architecture is the brain's capacitiy for internally generating, reduplicating, storing, and triggering imagery. The process of iconicity draws on the actor's use of this mental capacity. This book explores the principles of iconicity and develops them as a process for acting and staging dramatic performances. The first part of the book provides a theoretical explanation of iconicity. It offers a redefinition of acting and includes an examination of the ideology of acting and the role emotion plays in acting. The second part of the book is practically oriented. It explains dramatic structure in relation to iconicity, and it defines the four strands of the process: events, dialogue, interactions, and performance.
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Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba ("Lament and Catharsis" begins on p. 25) » Read Now
by Charles Segal. 316 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and with the discussion of catharsis and music in the Politics , taken...likely that his emphasis in the catharsis theory is on tragedys emotional...responses. 33 On this...
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An Introduction to Aesthetics ("The Theory of Emotional Catharsis" begins on p. 206) » Read Now
by Hunter Mead. 312 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...affairs are pictured in paint, marble, music, literature, or the dance. And...something of a classic in the literature of aesthetics. One...was that embodied in Greek and...
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From Homer to Menander: Forces in Greek Poetic Fiction (Discussion of catharsis in literature begins on p. 263) » Read Now
by L. A. Post. 333 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...brute force is common not only in Greek literature but in art. We are reminded...unhelpful here as elsewhere in Greek literature. The emotional turmoil in...Hector is, I...
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Art and Beauty ("Catharsis" begins on p. 146) » Read Now
by Max Schoen. 232 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...produce dramatic literature of the same quality he produced in his day, although...and wide enough in the realm of literature we are invariably...and Kubla Khan in his wide...
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Literature, Philosophy & the Imagination (Discussion of catharsis in literature begins on p. 300) » Read Now
by Albert William Levi. 364 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library
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The Appeal of Tragedy: An Attitude Interpretation, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology (Includes discussion of catharsis in literature) » Read Now
by Judson Mills. 17 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...would accomplish the purging of such emotions, but there is no systematic, scientific evidence in the psychological literature supporting the catharsis interpretation of...