The Literature Of Pity

Description:

Pity represents a combination of fear, helplessness and overwhelming agitation. It is a term which suffuses our everyday lives, it is also a dangerous term hovering between approval of sympathy and disapproval of emotional wallowing (as in 'self-pity'). This book traces an entire history of pity, as an emotion and as an element in the arts.

subjects: English literature, history and criticism,  Sympathy in literature,  Sympathy,  Begriff,  Englisch,  Literatur,  Substantiv,  Pity