LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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a purging of all emotions
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experiencing desirable emotions
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a purging of undesirable emotion
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a purging of desirable emotions
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Detailed explanation-1: -CATHARSIS: The emotional effect a tragic drama has on its audience. Aristotle introduced this term (which can mean either “purgation” or “purification” in Greek) into literary criticism in the Poetics (c. 330 B.C.E.).
Detailed explanation-2: -ca·thar·sis kə-ˈthär-səs. plural catharses kə-ˈthär-ˌsēz. : purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art.
Detailed explanation-3: -catharsis, the purification or purgation of the emotions (especially pity and fear) primarily through art.
Detailed explanation-4: -n. 1. in psychoanalytic theory, the discharge of previously repressed affects connected to traumatic events that occurs when these events are brought back into consciousness and reexperienced.