Poetics (Revised)
Aristotle
(Author)
Malcolm Heath
(Translator)
Description
One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history
In his near-contemporary account of classical 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 introduced 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. The Poetics has informed thinking about drama ever since. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Malcolm HeathProduct Details
Price
$13.00
$12.09
Publisher
Penguin Group
Publish Date
March 01, 1997
Pages
144
Dimensions
5.04 X 7.92 X 0.36 inches | 0.27 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780140446364
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About the Author
Aristotle was born in 384BC. For twenty years he studied at Athens at the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and some time later became tutor to Alexander the Great. On Alexander's succession to the throne of Macedonia in 336, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute, the Lyceum. After Alexander's death he was driven out of Athens and fled to Chalcis in Euboea where he died in 322. His writings profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy. Malcolm Heath has been Reader in Greek Language and Literature at Leeds University since 1991.
