Poetics (Janko Edition)

Name: Poetics (Janko Edition)
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ISBN: 9780872200333

ISBN-10: 0872200337

ISBN-13: 9780872200333

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Authors: Aristophanes, Richard Janko, Joe Sachs

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lsquo;The plot is the source and the soul of tragedyrsquo; 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 (lsquo;imitationrsquo;), hamartia (lsquo;errorrsquo;), and katharsis (lsquo;purificationrsquo;). Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication and resolution, recognition and reversals, centring on…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/15/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 15.87" wide x 9.06" long x 23.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English