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THE LITERATURE OF PITY
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| By: |
David Punter |
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Hardback |
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£95.00 |
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£78.38 |
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£16.62 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0748639497 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780748639496 |
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| Publisher: |
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 March, 2014 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
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. |
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This book traces an entire history of pity, as an emotion and as an element in the arts. 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 wealth of theoretical ideas to explore the literature of pity, including Freud, Derrida, Levinas and others. He 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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black & white plates, colour plates |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Edinburgh University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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