Title The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy.

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Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource (347 pages).
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Series	Princeton Legacy Library
	Princeton legacy library.
Contents	Cover; Contents; Part I: The Ancient Quarrel; 1. ""Philosophy"" in Socratism.
Summary	Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore tragedy and its power to gratify readers and audiences. He takes as his starting point Plato's moral and psychological objections to tragedy, and the conflict he recognized between ""poetry""--The exploitation of our yearning to see ourselves as victims--and ""philosophy""--the insistence that all good people are happy. Plato's objections to tr.
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Subject	Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
	Greek drama (Tragedy)
	Poetics -- History -- To 1500.
	Poetics.
	History.
Chronological Term	To 1500
Subject	Suffering in literature.
	Suffering in literature.
	Sympathy in literature.
	Sympathy in literature.
	Literature -- Philosophy.
	Literature -- Philosophy.
	Pathos in literature.
	Pathos in literature.
	Philosophy, Ancient.
	Philosophy, Ancient.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Gould, Thomas. Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN	9781400861866 (electronic book)
	1400861861 (electronic book)

Title The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy.

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