Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Paradox of Tragedy" by Jonathan Gilmore

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Andrade, Eduardo B. and Joel B. Cohen, 2007, “On the Consumption of Negative Feelings”, Journal of Consumer Research, 34(3): 283–300. doi:10.1086/519498 (Scholar)
Apter, Michael J., 1992, The Dangerous Edge: The Psychology of Excitement, New York: Free Press. (Scholar)
Aristotle, Poetics. Translated in The Poetics of Aristotle: Translation and Commentary, Stephen Halliwell (ed./tran.), London: Duckworth, 1987.
Augustine, Confessions, Michael P. Foley (ed.). F. J. Sheed (trans.), second edition, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2006.
Batteux, Charles, 1746 [2015], Les beaux arts reduits à un même principe, Paris: Durand. Translated as The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle, James O. Young (trans.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. doi:10.1093/actrade/9780198747116.book.1 (Scholar)
Bennett, Kenneth C., 1981, “The Purging of Catharsis”, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 21(3): 204–213. doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/21.3.204 (Scholar)
Bloom, Paul, 2021, Sweet Spot: Suffering, Pleasure and the Key to the Good Life, London: The Bodley Head. (Scholar)
Budd, Malcolm, 1995, Values of Art: Pictures, Poetry, and Music, London: Allen Lane. (Scholar)
Burke, Edmund, 1757, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, London: R. and J. Dodsley. (Scholar)
Carroll, Noël, 1990, The Philosophy of Horror, or, Paradoxes of the Heart, New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203361894 (Scholar)
Collingwood, R. G., 1938, Principles of Art, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
Cowen, Alan S. and Dacher Keltner, 2017, “Self-Report Captures 27 Distinct Categories of Emotion Bridged by Continuous Gradients”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(38): E7900–E7909. doi:10.1073/pnas.1702247114 (Scholar)
Currie, Greg, 2010, “Tragedy”, Analysis, 70 (4): 632–638. doi: 10.1093/analys/anq076 (Scholar)
Dadlez, Eva M., 2004, “Pleased and Afflicted: Hume on the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure”, Hume Studies, 30(2): 213–236. doi:10.1353/hms.2004.a383295 (Scholar)
De Clercq, Rafael, 2014, “A Simple Solution to the Paradox of Negative Emotion”, in Levinson 2014a: 111–122. doi:10.1057/9781137313713_6">10.1057/9781137313713_6 (Scholar)
Deonna, Julien A. and Fabrice Teroni, 2008 [2012], Qu’est-ce qu’une émotion?, Vrin. Translated as The Emotions: A Philosophical Introduction, London/New York: Routledge, 2012. doi:10.4324/9780203721742 (Scholar)
Eaton, Marcia Muelder, 1982, “A Strange Kind of Sadness”, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 41(1): 51–63. doi:10.2307/430823 (Scholar)
–––, 1989, Aesthetics and the Good Life, Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. (Scholar)
Feagin, Susan L., 1983, “The Pleasures of Tragedy”, American Philosophical Quarterly 20(1): 95–104. (Scholar)
Friend, Stacie, 2007, “The Pleasures of Documentary Tragedy”, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 47(2): 184–198. doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayl055 (Scholar)
Gaut, Berys, 1993, “The Paradox of Horror”, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 33(4): 333–345. doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/33.4.333 (Scholar)
Gerrig, R. J., 1993, Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
Gilmore, Jonathan, 2011, “Expression as Realization: Speakers’ Interests in Freedom of Speech”, Law and Philosophy, 30(5): 517–539. doi:10.1007/s10982-011-9096-z (Scholar)
–––, 2013, “Grief and Belief”, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 53(1): 103–107. doi:10.1093/aesthj/ays054 (Scholar)
–––, 2020, Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190096342.001.0001 (Scholar)
Goodman, Nelson, 1968 [1976], Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols, Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill. Second edition, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Scholar)
Gordon, Robert M., 1987, The Structure of Emotions: Investigations in Cognitive Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy), Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Green, Otis Howard, 1992, The Emotions: A Philosophical Theory (Philosophical Studies Series 53), Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer. (Scholar)
Green, M. C., and Brock, T. C., 2002, “In the Mind’s eye: Transportation-imagery Model of Narrative Persuasion”, in M. C. Green, J. J. Strange, and T. C. Brock (eds.), Narrative Impact: Social and Cognitive Foundations, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 315–342. (Scholar)
Greenspan, Patricia S., 1980, “A Case of Mixed Feelings: Ambivalence and the Logic of Emotion”, in Explaining Emotions (Topics in Philosophy, 5) Amélie Rorty (ed.), Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 223–250. (Scholar)
Hagen, Edward H., Paul J. Watson, and Peter Hammerstein, 2008, “Gestures of Despair and Hope: A View on Deliberate Self-Harm From Economics and Evolutionary Biology”, Biological Theory, 3(2): 123–138. doi:10.1162/biot.2008.3.2.123 (Scholar)
Hume, David, 1757 [1987], “Of Tragedy”, in his Four Dissertations, London: A. Millar. Collected as Essay XXII in his Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Eugene F. Miller (ed.), Revised edition, Indianapolis, IN: LibertyClassics, 1987, 216–225. [Hume 1757 available online] (Scholar)
Hutcheson, Francis, 1725, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue: In Two Treatises, London: Printed by J. Darby. New edition Reprinted, Wolfgang Leidhold (ed.), Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2004. [Hutcheson 1725 available online] (Scholar)
Johnson, Samuel, 1765, “Preface to Shakespeare”, in The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Arthur Sherbo (ed.), New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1968. 7:111. [Johnson 1765 available online] (Scholar)
Kant, Immanuel, 1798 [1996], Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht. Collected in the [AK] Königlichen Preußischen (later Deutschen) Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed.), 1900–, Kants gesammelte Schriften, Berlin: Georg Reimer, 7: 117–333. Translated as Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, Hans H. Rudnick (ed.), Victor Lyle Dowdell (trans.), Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. (Scholar)
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1751, “Our Attachment to Objects of Distress”, in Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion: In Two Parts, Edinburgh: Printed by R. Fleming, for A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1–31. Reprinted Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2005. [Kames 1751 available online] (Scholar)
Korsmeyer, Carolyn, 2011, Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199756940.001.0001 (Scholar)
Lamarque, Peter, 2007, “On the Distance between Literary Narratives and Real-Life Narratives”, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 60: 117–132. doi:10.1017/s1358246100009632 (Scholar)
–––, 2014, The Opacity of Narrative, London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield International (Scholar)
Larsen, Jeff T. and A. Peter McGraw, 2014, “The Case for Mixed Emotions”, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(6): 263–274. doi:10.1111/spc3.12108 (Scholar)
Lear, Jonathan, 1988, “Katharsis”, Phronesis, 33(1–3): 297–326. doi:10.1163/156852888x00216 (Scholar)
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1766, Laokoon: oder, Über die grenzen der mahlerey und poesie…, Berlin: C. F. Voss. Translated as Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry, Edward Allen McCormick (trans.), Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. (Scholar)
Levinson,Jerrold, 1982, “Music and Negative Emotion”, reprinted in Levinson, Music, Art, and Metaphysics: Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990, 306–335. (Scholar)
––– (ed.), 2003, The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279456.001.0001 (Scholar)
––– (ed.), 2014a, Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotion in Art, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137313713 (Scholar)
–––, 2014b, “Introduction”, in Levinson 2014a: x–xvi. (Scholar)
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura. Translated as On the Nature of Things, Martin Ferguson Smith (trans.), Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2001.
Mar, Raymond A. and Keith Oatley, 2008, “The Function of Fiction Is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience”, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3(3): 173–192. doi:10.1111/j.1745-6924.2008.00073.x (Scholar)
Matravers, Derek, 2014, Fiction and Narrative, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199647019.001.0001 (Scholar)
Mazzocco, P. J, M. C. Green, J. A Sasota, and N. W Jones (2010), “This Story Is Not for Everyone: Transportability and Narrative Persuasion”, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(4): 361–368. doi:10.1177/1948550610376600 (Scholar)
Menninghaus, Winfried, Valentin Wagner, Julian Hanich, Eugen Wassiliwizky, Thomas Jacobsen, and Stefan Koelsch, 2017, “The Distancing-Embracing Model of the Enjoyment of Negative Emotions in Art Reception”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40: e347. doi:10.1017/s0140525x17000309 (Scholar)
Morreall, John, 1985, “Enjoying Negative Emotions in Fiction”, Philosophy and Literature, 9(1): 95–103. (Scholar)
Nehamas, Alexander, 1994, “Pity and Fear in the Rhetoric and the Poetics”, in Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”: Philosophical Essays, David J. Furley and Alexander Nehamas (eds.), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 257–282. (Scholar)
Neill, Alex, 1992, “Yanal and Others on Hume on Tragedy”, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 50(2): 151–154. doi:10.2307/430954 (Scholar)
–––, 1999, “Hume’s ‘Singular Phenomenon’”, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 39(2): 112–125. doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/39.2.112 (Scholar)
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1886, Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft, Leipzig: C. G. Naumann. Translated as Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy), Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Judith Norman (eds), Judith Norman (trans.), Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511812033 (Scholar)
Norris, Catherine J., Jackie Gollan, Gary G. Berntson, and John T. Cacioppo, 2010, “The Current Status of Research on the Structure of Evaluative Space”, Biological Psychology, 84(3): 422–436. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.03.011 (Scholar)
Price, Amy, 1998, “Nietzsche and the Paradox of Tragedy”, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 38(4): 384–393. doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/38.4.384 (Scholar)
Raja, Srinivasa N., Daniel B. Carr, Milton Cohen, Nanna B. Finnerup, Herta Flor, Stephen Gibson, Francis J. Keefe, Jeffrey S. Mogil, Matthias Ringkamp, Kathleen A. Sluka, Xue-Jun Song, Bonnie Stevens, Mark D. Sullivan, Perri R. Tutelman, Takahiro Ushida, and Kyle Vader, 2020, “The Revised International Association for the Study of Pain Definition of Pain: Concepts, Challenges, and Compromises”, Pain, 161(9): 1976–1982. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001939 (Scholar)
Ridley, Aaron, 2003, “Tragedy”, in Levinson 2003: 408–420 (ch. 23). (Scholar)
Robinson, Jenefer, 2005, Deeper than Reason: Emotion and Its Role in Literature, Music, and Art, Oxford: Clarendon. doi:10.1093/0199263655.001.0001 (Scholar)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1758 [1960], “Lettre à M. d’Alembert sur les spectacles”. Translated in Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. d’Alembert on the Theatre, Alan Bloom (trans.), Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1960. (Scholar)
Rozin, Paul, Lily Guillot, Katrina Fincher, Alexander Rozin, and Eli Tsukayama, 2013, “Glad to Be Sad, and Other Examples of Benign Masochism”, Judgment and Decision Making, 8(4): 439–447. doi:10.1017/s1930297500005295 (Scholar)
Schier, Flint, 1989, “The Claims of Tragedy: An Essay in Moral Psychology and Aesthetic Theory”, Philosophical Papers, 18(1): 7–26. doi:10.1080/05568648909506308 (Scholar)
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1818/1844, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, one volume, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1818. In 1844 a greatly expanded 2 volume edition with the first volume being mostly the 1818 book. English translations of the 1844 edition volumes:
- 2010, Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation, Volume 1, Judith Norman, Alistair Welchman, and Christopher Janaway (eds). Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman (trans), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511780943 (Scholar)
- 2018, Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation, Volume 2, Judith Norman, Alistair Welchman, and Christopher Janaway (eds/trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9780511843112
Shelley, James, 2003, “Imagining the Truth: An Account of Tragic Pleasure”, in Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts, Matthew Kieran and Dominic Lopes (eds), London/New York: Routledge, 177–185 (ch. 10). (Scholar)
Smuts, Aaron, 2007, “The Paradox of Painful Art”, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 41(3): 59–76. doi:10.1353/jae.2007.0029 (Scholar)
–––, 2014, “Painful Art and the Limits of Well-Being”, in Levinson 2014a: 123–152. doi:10.1057/9781137313713_7 (Scholar)
Stampe, Dennis W., 1987, “The Authority of Desire”, The Philosophical Review, 96(3): 335–381. doi:10.2307/2185225 (Scholar)
Stecker, Robert, 2011, “Should We Still Care about the Paradox of Fiction?”, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 51(3): 295–308. doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayr019 (Scholar)
Todd, Cain, 2014, “Attention, Negative Valence, and Tragic Emotions”, in Levinson 2014a: 224–245. doi:10.1057/9781137313713_12 (Scholar)
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–––, 1990, Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
Yanal, Robert J., 1991, “Hume and Others on the Paradox of Tragedy”, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 49(1): 75–76. doi:10.2307/431651 (Scholar)

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