THE CONCEPT OF CATHARSIS IN FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY'S WORKS: FROM THE NEWSPAPER POLEMICS OF 1873

The question of catharsis was first brought up by Aristotle in his Poetics. Aristotle used to interpret catharsis in an extended sense. For him it could be tragic or musical, but it always meant purification or purgation as a dialogue between a poet and a spectator seen as one of the aims of art. In...

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Main Author: Olga Vladimirovna Zakharova
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Petrozavodsk State University 2013-11-01
Series:Problemy Istoričeskoj Poètiki
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Online Access:http://poetica.pro/files/redaktor_pdf/1431516511.pdf