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Suffering art gladly : the paradox of negative emotion in art /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Levinson, Jerrold (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Arts > Psychological aspects.
Emotions in art.
Table of Contents:
  • Historical perspectives. Tragic pleasures in Plato and Aristotle / Pierre DestrĂ©e
  • The paradox of negative emotion in art in enlightenment aesthetics / Carole Talon-Hugon
  • A lust of the mind: curiosity and aversion in 18th century British aesthetics / Carolyn Korsmeyer
  • Mere suffering: Hume and the problem of tragedy / Christopher Williams
  • The problem and promise of the sublime: lessons from Kant and Schopenhauer / Sandra Shapshay
  • Contemporary perspectives. A simple solution to the paradox of negative emotion / Raf DeClercq
  • Painful art and the limits of well-being / Aaron Smuts
  • That obscure object of desire: pleasure in painful art / Jonathan Gilmore
  • Playing with fire: art and the seductive power of pain / Iskra Fileva
  • Poetic pains: how poetry hurts and heals / Anna Ribeiro
  • Negative emotions and creativity / Derek Matravers
  • Attention, negative valence, and tragic emotions / Cain Todd
  • Watching the unwatchable: 'irreversible', 'empire', and the other paradox of negative emotions / David Davies.