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1) Poetics
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"Aristotle's Poetics is one of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history." "A penetrating, near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear' - and why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. It introduces the crucial concepts of mimesis ('imitation'), hamartia ('error') and katharsis, which...
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Series
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is the centrepiece of this new collection of Burke's early work. It also includes the restored texts of A Vindication of Natural Society and other examples of his work.
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