The Literature Of Pity
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780748639496
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.