The logic of wish and fear : new perspectives on genres of Western fiction /

The logic of wish and fear : new perspectives on genres of Western fiction /

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 tel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: La Farge, Ben, 1932- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
Literature > Philosophy.
Literary form.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama.
PHILOSOPHY / Essays.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • PART I: THE CONVERGENCE OF COMEDY AND ROMANCE
  • 1. Comedy's Logic
  • 2. Comedy's Intention
  • 3. Comic Romance
  • PART II: SECULAR MYTH
  • 4. The Anatomy of Secular Myth
  • PART THREE: THE PLEASURES OF TRAGEDY
  • 5. Genesis
  • Why Then?
  • 6. Complex Tragedy
  • 7. The Problem of Catharsis
  • 8. The Question of Fate
  • 9. The Tragic Flaw
  • 10. Syphilis and War as Substitute Fates
  • 11. High and Low Mimetic Tragedies
  • Conclusion.