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Author:

Punter, David, author.

Title:

The literature of pity / David Punter.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

vi, 190 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sympathy in literature.
Sympathy.
Sympathy.
Sympathy in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index.

Contents:

After thought : under the dome. Pity and terror : the Aristotelian framework -- Pietà -- Shakespeare on pity -- The eighteenth century -- Blake : pity would be no more -- Aspects of Victoriana -- Chekhov and Brecht : pity and self-pity -- War, and the pity of war : Wilfred Owen, David Jones, Primo Levi -- Reflections on Algernon Blackwood's Gothic -- Pity's cold extremities : Jean Rhys and Stevie Smith -- Reclaiming the savage night -- Pity the poor immigrant : pity, diaspora, the colony -- Lyric and pity -- After thought : under the dome.

ISBN:

9780748691975
0748691979
0748639497 (cloth)
9780748639496 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)875133741

LCCN:

2013481660

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)