La interpretación intelectualista de la tragedia: Una discusión critica

La interpretación intelectualista de la tragedia: Una discusión critica

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The nature of tragedy is a matter of controversy.The intelectualist vision of tragedy has gained ground in the last years.In this paper I intend to discuss on the heterodox read more and extreme version of the cognitivism, defended recently by Pierluigi Donini in La tragedia, senza la catarsi, which firmly rules out the emotional or cathartic function of tragic drama and asserts that “the function of tragedy is not catharsis, but its crowning read more or last stage: understanding”.

The revision of the arguments stated by Donini will allow to enlighten some obscure points in the aristotelian theory of tragedy, particularly the place of music and entertainment in tragic drama.