Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?

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Original, passionate, lucid - By: W. Flesch, 01 Feb 2002
This is a great slim book not so much answering the question Why of its title but making that question deep & difficult. Nutalll is direct, firm, no-nonsense, & competent in the rarest & best sense, going where he needs to go, & knowing as much as any expert about the topics which he finds himself addressing. So in considering Aristotle's Poetics, he knows what most critics don't: what Aristotle says in the Politics & the Rhetoric & elsewhere. And he knows Dr. Johnson & Shakespeare & Beckett just as well. A gem of a book.

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