Tragedy, it turns out, is a powerful literary form for dealing with posttraumatic fear.
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Got a Problem? Call a Poet
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Angus Fletcher, Aristotle, bibliotherapy, literary technique, Oedipus, philosophy, posttraumatic fear, PTSD, Rhetoric, Sigmund Freud, sophists, Sophocles, Wonderworks Comments closed
Doc, Prescribe Me a Poem
Literature as therapy, Greek tragedy as soap opera: assorted articles about lit and life.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Variation on a Theme by Rilke", Denise Levertov, Elizabeth Bishop, Greek tragedy, Marianne Moore, Oedipus Rex, Sophocles Comments closed
