The Paradox of Horror and Tragedy

We have compiled a list of sources pertaining to both the paradox of horror and the paradox of tragedy since they are closely related to one another.

Books:

Carroll, Noel.  "Why Horror?" Arguing about Art. Ed. Neil, Alex., and Aaron Ridley. New York: Routledge, 2008. 297-316. Print.

Gaut, Berys. "The Paradox of Horror." Arguing about Art. Ed. Alex Neil, and Aaron Ridley. New York: Routledge, 2008. 317-329. Print.

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Aristotle, Poetics. Trans. Joe Sachs. Newburyport: Focus Publishing, 2006, Print.

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Hume, David. Essays: Moral, Political, Literary. New York: Cosimo, 2006. Print.

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Carroll, Noel. The Philosophy of Horror: Or Paradoxes of the Heart. New York: Routledge, 1991. Print.

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Nussbaum, Martha C. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2001. Print.

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Lovecraft, H.P., and Everett F. Bleiler. Supernatural Horror in Literature. New York: Dover Publication, 1973. Print.

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Heller, Terry. The Delights of Terror: An Aesthetics of the Tale of Terror. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Print.

Shaw, Daniel, and Steven Schneider J. Dark Thoughts: Philosophical Reflections on Cinematic Horror. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2003. Print.

Walton, Kendall. Mimesis as Make-Believe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. Print.

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Journal Articles:

Carroll, Noel. "Disgust or Fascination : A Response to Susan Feagin." Philosophical Studies 65.1 (1992): 85-90. Web.

Carroll, Noel. "Enjoying Horror Fictions: A reply to Gaut." British Journal of Aesthetics 35.1 (1995): 67-72. Web.

Carroll, Noel. "Horror, Helplessness, and Vulnerability: A reply to Robert Solomon. Philosophy and Literature 17.1 (1993): 110-118. Web.

Dadlez, E. M. "Pleased andAfflictedd: Hume on the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure." Hume Studies 30.2 (2004): 213-236. Web.

Eaton, Marcia. "A Strange Kind of Sadness." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 41.1 (1982): 51-63. Web.

Gaut, Berys. "The Enjoyment Theory of Horror: A Response to Carroll." British Journal of Aesthetics 35.3 (1995): 284-289. Web.

Griffin, Drew E. "Nietzsche on Tragedy and Parody." Philosophy and Literature 18.2 (1994): 339-347. Web.

Iseminger, Gary. "How Strange a Sadness?." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 42.1 (1983): 81-82. Web.

Levinson, Jerrold. "Music and Negative Emotion." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 63.1 (1982): 327-346. Web.

Morreall, John. "Enjoying Negative Emotions in Fictions." Philosophy and Literature 9.1 (1985): 95-103. Web.

Markowitz, Sally. "Guilty Pleasures: Aesthetic Meta-Response and Fiction." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50.1 (1992): 307-316. Web.

Neill, Alex. "On a Paradox of the Heart." Philosophical Studies 65.1 (1992): 53-65. Web.

Neil, Alex. "An Unaccountable Pleasure": Hume on Tragedy and the Passions." Hume Studies 24.2 (1998):335-354. Web.

Packer, Mark. "Dissolving the Paradox of Tragedy." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47.1 (1989): 212-219. Web.

Shapshay, Sandra. "The Problem with the Problem of Tragedy : Schopenhauer’s Solution Revisited." British Journal of Aesthetics, 52.1: (2012): 17-32.

Schier, Flint. "The Claims of Tragedy: An Essay in Moral Psychology and Aesthetic Theory." Philosophical Papers 18.1 (1989): 7-26. Web.

Smuts, Aaron. "The Paradox of Painful Art." The Journal of Aesthetic Education 41.3 (2007): 59-76. Web.

Solomon, Robert S. "The Philosophy of Horror, Or Paradoxes of the Heart (Review)." Philosophy and Literature 16.1 (1992): 163-173. Web.

Williams, Christopher. "Is Tragedy Paradoxical." British Journal of Aesthetics 38.1 (1998): 47-62. Web.