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Pity is a combination of fear, helplessness and overwhelming agitation. The term suffuses our everyday lives; it is also a dangerous term hovering between approval of sympathy and disapproval of emotional wallowing ('self-pity'). David Punter 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.
? An original treatment of the concept of pity, providing detailed textual criticism and speculative argument
? A wide-ranging history of pity, 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
Product Details
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (October 2, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0748639497
- ISBN-13: 978-0748639496
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