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1 gen 1993 · Belfiore is strongest in reading the Poetics in the light of the rest of the corpus, especially the biological works. She certainly makes it impossible to believe that catharsis is a straightforward homeopathic process in which we are purged of excessive pity and fear.
The question of the relationship between pleasure and pain in Aristotle's aesthetics has been studied primarily in connection with catharsis. Catharsis, however, raises more problems than it solves. Aristotle says nothing at all about the tragic catharsis in the Poetics except to state that tragedy accomplishes it.
Golden, 'Epic, Tragedy, and Catharsis', CP 71 (1976), 77-85, correctly argues that the pleasure of tragedy arises from mimisis and not from pity and fear, which are painful emotions.
4 lug 2016 · Of the many meanings of katharsis available to Aristotle, two have predominated in scholarly attempts to say what the word means in the Poetics when “the katharsis of pity and fear produced by pity and fear” is defined as the aim of tragedy.
Eleonora Belfiore & Oliver Bennett. 675 Accesses. Abstract. The concept of catharsis as the end result of tragic theatrical performance finds its first elaboration in the Poetics, a later work by the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384/3–322/1 BC ), a pupil of Plato.
While exploring catharsis, tragic pleasures analyzes the closely related question of how the Poetics treats the issue of plot structure. In fact, Belfiore’s wide ranging work eventually discusses every central concept in the Poetics, including imitation, pity and fear, necessity and probability, character, and kinship relations. Online: Amazon
Elizabeth Belfiore held an alternate view of catharsis as an allopathic process in which pity and fear produce a catharsis of emotions unlike pity and fear, which she described in her book,Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion.
