- This topic is empty.
-
Posts
-
Poetics
by Aristotle, Malcolm Heath🔰 Poetics — READ MORE 🔰
- Author: Aristotle, Malcolm Heath
- ISBN: 9780140446364 (0140446362)
- Release date: September 26, 1996
- Genres: philosophy, classics, poetry, writing, art, literature, theory, ancient
- Language: english
- Format: paperback, 144 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
About The Book
‘The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy’
In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Taking examples from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, The Poetics introduces into literary criticism such central concepts as mimesis (‘imitation’), hamartia (‘error’), and katharsis (‘purification’). Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication and resolution, recognition and reversals, centring on characters of heroic stature, idealized yet true to life. One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history, the Poetics has informed serious thinking about drama ever since.
Malcolm Heath’s lucid English translation makes the Poetics fully accessible to the modern reader. It is accompanied by an extended introduction, which discusses the key concepts in detail and includes suggestions for further reading.
PDF ebook Poetics by Aristotle on reader on Kobo. Online Poetics buy. Paperback book Poetics download on Book Depository. Hardcover Poetics Aristotle read for Mac. MP3 book Poetics Aristotle download PC.
Hardback ebook Poetics read online on Powells. EPUB ebook Poetics by Aristotle buy cheap for iPad. MOBI Poetics on Amazon. FB2 book Poetics read PocketBook on Barnes & Noble. FictionBook Poetics Aristotle buy.
TXT ebook Poetics by Aristotle download on Booktopia. MP3 book Poetics on Kindle. FictionBook book Poetics. FB2 Poetics by Aristotle buy cheap Android on Bookshop. Hardback ebook Poetics download for iOS.
