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1) Poetics
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English
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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
Publisher
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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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter of such hits as The Social Network and The West Wing, recently urged aspiring writers to become students and evangelists for Aristotle's Poetics. How is it that this small and rather obscure treatise by an ancient philosopher better known for metaphysics and ethics has become over the centuries the standard and best handbook for writing drama, novels, short stories, and now screenplays for...
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