Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy

by Mario Telò

Book Overview

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"