Title: The literature of pity /
Authors: Punter, David.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sympathy in literature.; Sympathy; Begriff; Englisch; Literatur; Substantiv; pity.
Abstract: 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.