Title: The logic of wish and fear
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"--
Subjects: Literature, Philosophy, Literary form, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Literature, philosophy, Comedy, History and criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary theory