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The Literature Of Pity David Punter

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The Literature Of Pity David Punter
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 1.66 MB
Pages: 256
Author: David Punter
ISBN: 9780748691975, 0748691979
Language: English
Year: 2014

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The Literature Of Pity David Punter by David Punter 9780748691975, 0748691979 instant download after payment.

Traces an entire history of pity, as an emotion and as an element in the arts

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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').


This book traces an entire history of pity, as an emotion and as an element in the arts, engaging as it does so with a wealth of theoretical ideas including Freud, Derrida, Levinas and others. It begins with an 'Introduction: Distinguishing Pity', followed by chapters on the Aristotelian framework; Buddhism and pity; the pieta in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Shakespeare on pity; Milton's pitiless Christianity; pity and charity in the early novel; Blake's views on pity; the Victorian debate, from Austen to Dickens and George Eliot; Brecht and Chekhov on pity and self-pity; 'war, and the pity of war'; Jean Rhys and Stevie Smith; pity, immigration and the colony; and finally three contemporary texts by Michel Faber, Kazuo Ishiguro and Cormac McCarthy.


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  • Original treatment of the concept of pity providing detailed textual criticism and speculative argument

  • Wide-ranging: running from ancient Greek theory to the present day

  • Covers a wide variety of texts, including fiction, poetry and drama

  • Engages with the most recent theoretical debates about literature and the emotions
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