LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Detailed explanation-1: -catharsis, the purification or purgation of the emotions (especially pity and fear) primarily through art. In criticism, catharsis is a metaphor used by Aristotle in the Poetics to describe the effects of true tragedy on the spectator.
Detailed explanation-2: -Furthermore, this interpretation would also unite the term “catharsis” organically with the statements made by Aristotle in chapter 9 about the universality of poetry and in chapter 14 concerning the nature of the particular pleasure found in tragedy. chapter 6 of the Poetics.
Detailed explanation-3: -Etymology. From Ancient Greek (kátharsis, “cleansing, purging”), from (kathaírō, “I cleanse”). Coined in the dramatic-emotional sense by Aristotle.
Detailed explanation-4: -: purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art. : a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension. : elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression. 3. : purgation.