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Certainly our society has achieved its present state of aesthetic development as the result of a process of cumulative change from earlier states; it may be, as I have suggested, that this change follows a rather definite pattern. Evidently the individual recapitulates this — or a portion of this — development during his own history. Further each occasion of appreciation is an activity which moves through a characteristic cycle of development. This activity was called (chapter III) a movement among analogues. The nature of this movement remains to be investigated.
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Metaph. VII, 1036, a, 9.
Compare Kenneth Burke’s remark, “We enact by tragedy a purificatory ritual symbolizing our enrollment in a cause shaped to handle a situation accurately.” Philosophy of Literary Form, 1941.
Rhet. II, 8.
Cf. B. Bosanquet, History of Aesthetics, N.Y., 1910, chapt. 4.
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Ballard, E.G. (1957). Imitation and Catharsis. In: Art and Analysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8843-2_9
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