| #22878 in Books | Dover Publications | 1997-03-12 | 1997-03-12 | Original language:Greek | PDF # 1 | 8.36 x.18 x5.18l,.15 | File type: PDF | 64 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| THE text for creative writers|By Customer|this is THE foundation text for all creative writers, not just screen writers! I'm glad to have it as part of my permanent collection, where I can turn to it again and again for inspiration.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Poorly formatted ebook edition...|By LeitourgiaLanguage Notes|Text: English (translation)| Original Language: Greek|From the Back Cover|Aristotle's Poetics is one of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history. A penetrati
Among the most influential books in Western civilization, Aristotle's Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. In it are mentioned not only epic and dithyrambic poetry, but tragedy, comedy, and flute and lyre playing. Aristotle's conception of tragedy, i.e. the depiction of a heroic action that arouses pity and fear in the spectators and brings about a catharsis of those emotions, has helped perpetuate the Greek ideal of drama to the present day. Similarl...
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