Suffering Art Gladly : the Paradox of Negative Emotion in Art.
"Suffering Art Gladly" is concerned with the ostensibly paradoxical phenomenon of negative emotions involved in the experience of art: how can we explain the pleasure felt or satisfaction taken in such experience when it is the vehicle of negative emotions, that is, ones that seem to be un...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Historical perspectives. Tragic pleasures in Plato and Aristotle / Pierre Destrée
- 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.