The Literature of Pity / / David Punter.
Traces an entire history of pity, as an emotion and as an element in the artsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748639496','ISBN:9780748691975']);Pity represents a combination of fear, helplessness and overwhelming agitation. It is a term which suffuses our everyday lives; i...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 4 colour illustrations |
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Summary: | Traces an entire history of pity, as an emotion and as an element in the artsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748639496','ISBN:9780748691975']);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. FeaturesOriginal treatment of the concept of pity providing detailed textual criticism and speculative argumentWide-ranging: running from ancient Greek theory to the present dayCovers a wide variety of texts, including fiction, poetry and dramaEngages with the most recent theoretical debates about literature and the emotions" |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780748691975 9783110780451 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780748691975 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | David Punter. |