Catharsis

In Garry L. Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 193–217 (2010) Copy BIBT_EX

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catharsis tragedy, says Aristotle ‐ mimesis of serious and complete action, having magnitude Aristotle distinguishing cathartic melodies from “ethical melodies” tragic catharsis ‐ effecting purification of emotions tragedy, training and habituating us in feeling pity and fear in response to events pity, paradigm of another‐regarding emotion In Rhetoric, Aristotle saying, those who have already experienced great disasters no longer feel fear

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