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... passions— while making a passage through the embattled ways of the world . Poets find it easier to portray the unwholesome and violent pas- sions ( as we might say , the tamasic and the rajasic ) , and thus appeal to man's irrational ...
... passions— while making a passage through the embattled ways of the world . Poets find it easier to portray the unwholesome and violent pas- sions ( as we might say , the tamasic and the rajasic ) , and thus appeal to man's irrational ...
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... passions , really effects a Katharsis of these passions by presenting them in imaginative terms . Although the Katharsis clause is but a part of Aristotle's definition of Tragedy occurring in the Poetics , it is assumed that it has a ...
... passions , really effects a Katharsis of these passions by presenting them in imaginative terms . Although the Katharsis clause is but a part of Aristotle's definition of Tragedy occurring in the Poetics , it is assumed that it has a ...
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... passions , didn't adversely affect men's morals . For example , answering the criticism that poetry incited the passions , Bhatta Tauta said ( unconsciously echoing the Katharsis theory ) that , just as dust cleansed a rusty mirror ...
... passions , didn't adversely affect men's morals . For example , answering the criticism that poetry incited the passions , Bhatta Tauta said ( unconsciously echoing the Katharsis theory ) that , just as dust cleansed a rusty mirror ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF LITERATURE AND THe | 3 |
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 21 |
BACKGROUNDS CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN | 42 |
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