Literature and the Irrational

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Excerpt from Literature and the Irrational: A Study in Anthropological BackgroundsOrigin of tragedy in Greece, 156 Gaps in our knowledge of backgrounds, 156 Anthropological views of Greek tragedy, 157 Two early theories: W. Schmid and Albrecht Dieterich, 157 Martin P_. N ilsson, 158 William Ridgeway, 158 Jane Ellen Harrison, 159 George Thomson, 160 Ritual and drama outside Greece, 163 Dramatic ritual and the primitive time sense, 165 The form of Greek tragedy, 166 Conformity with a recurrent pattern of consciousness, 167 Additional formal details, 169 Archaic tendencies in later tragedy, 171 Three modern theories, 172 Leo Kaplan, 172 Alfred Winterstein, 176 Helen Adolf, 180 Common elements in the theories, 183 Lucretius' view, 185 Corroboration from the practice of self-torture, 186 Tragedy and psychic release, 187 Archaic tendencies in comedy, 189 Recurrent comic elements: cheerfulness, 189 Satire, 191 Seriousness, 193.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.