Title: The Literature Of Pity
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.
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, Sympathy in literature, Sympathy, Begriff, Englisch, Literatur, Substantiv, Pity