Aristotle's Poetics

Name: Aristotle's Poetics
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ISBN: 9780809005277

ISBN-10: 0809005271

ISBN-13: 9780809005277

Edition: N/A

Authors: Aristotle, S. H. Butcher, Francis Fergusson

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Introduced by Francis Fergusson, the Poetics, written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental one we have. It has been used by both playwrights and theorists of many periods, and interpreted, in the course of its two thousand years of life, in various ways. The literature which has accumulated around it is, as Mr. Fergusson points out, "full of disputes so erudite that the nonspecialist can only look on in respectful silence." But the Poetics itself is still with us, in all its suggestiveness, for the modern reader to make use of in his turn and for his own purposes. Francis Fergusson's lucid, informative, and entertaining…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 1/1/1961
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 4.25" wide x 7.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English