Suffering art gladly : the paradox of negative emotion in art
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Suffering art gladly : the paradox of negative emotion in art
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining the appeal of artworks whose appreciation entails negative or difficult emotions on the appreciator's part - what has traditionally been known as "the paradox of tragedy".
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Jerrold Levinson PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. Tragic Pleasures in Plato and Aristotle
- Pierre Destree 2. The Paradox of Negative Emotion in Art in Enlightenment Aesthetics
- Carole Talon-Hugon 3. A Lust of the Mind: Curiosity and Aversion in 18th Century British Aesthetics
- Carolyn Korsmeyer 4. Mere Suffering: Hume and the Problem of Tragedy
- Christopher Williams 5. The Problem and Promise of the Sublime: Lessons from Kant and Schopenhauer
- Sandra Shapshay PART II: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES 6. A Simple Solution to the Paradox of Negative Emotion
- Raf DeClercq 7. Painful Art and the Limits of Well-Being
- Aaron Smuts 8. That Obscure Object of Desire: Pleasure in Painful Art
- Jonathan Gilmore 9. Playing With Fire: Art and the Seductive Power of Pain
- Iskra Fileva 10. Heavenly Hurt: The Joy and Value of Sad Poetry
- Anna Christina Ribeiro 11. Negative Emotions and Creativity
- Derek Matravers 12. Attention, Negative Valence, and Tragic Emotions
- Cain Todd 13. Watching the Unwatchable: 'Irreversible', 'Empire', and the Other Paradox of Negative Emotions
- David Davies
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