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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