The logic of wish and fear
Subtitle: new perspectives on genres of Western fiction
By: Ben La Farge, Professor of Literature, Bard College, USA
Series: Palgrave pivot
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781137470843; 9781137465571; 9781137465689
Subjects: Literature; Philosophy; Literary form; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama; PHILOSOPHY / Essays
Description: "Through Aristotle's theory of catharsis and his concept of complex tragedy, Ben La Farge provides an original examination of genre.  Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American and Russian drama, and fiction and contemporary television, this study sheds new light on the art of comedy"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface; title: PART I: THE CONVERGENCE OF COMEDY AND ROMANCE; title: 1. Comedy's Logic; title: 2. Comedy's Intention; title: 3. Comic Romance; title: PART II: SECULAR MYTH; title: 4. The Anatomy of Secular Myth; title: PART THREE: THE PLEASURES OF TRAGEDY; title: 5. Genesis - Why Then?; title: 6. Complex Tragedy; title: 7. The Problem of Catharsis; title: 8. The Question of Fate; title: 9. The Tragic Flaw; title: 10. Syphilis and War as Substitute Fates; title: 11. High and Low Mimetic Tragedies; title: Conclusion.