The literature of pity
Pity represents a combination of fear, helplessness and overwhelming agitation. It is a term which suffuses our everyday lives; it is also a dangerous term hovering between approval of sympathy and disapproval of emotional wallowing (as in 'self-pity'). David Punter here engages with a wea...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
2014.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42057486*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Distinguishing pity
- Pity and terror : the Aristotelian framework
- Pietà
- Shakespeare on pity
- The eighteenth century
- Blake : "pity would be no more"
- Aspects of Victoriana
- Chekhov and Brecht : pity and self-pity
- "War, and the pity of war" : Wilfred Owen, David Jones, Primo Levi
- Reflections on Algernon Blackwood's Gothic
- Pity's cold extremities : Jean Rhys and Stevie Smith
- Reclaiming the savage night
- "Pity the poor immigrant" : pity, diaspora, the colony
- Lyric and pity
- After thought : under the dome.
