Sublime Bérénice
Racine, in the preface to Bérénice, invents a new tragic emotion: sadness, which replaces Aristotelian pity. According to Georges Forestier, the selfishness of sadness is opposed to the altruism of compassion, and confirms this drift from tragedy to lyricism that has often been blamed on this play....
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/3507 |