Poetics: Full Work Summary - SparkNotes
网页Aristotle divides tragedy into six different parts, ranking them in order from most important to least important as follows: (1) mythos, or plot, (2) character, (3) thought, (4) diction, (5) melody, and (6) spectacle. The first essential to creating a good tragedy is that it should …
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Aristotle identifies tragedy as the most refined version of poetry dealing with …
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Aristotle now narrows his focus to examine tragedy exclusively. In order to do so, he …
Selected Works of Aristotle Poetics Summary & Analysis
网页Aristotle identifies tragedy as the most refined version of poetry dealing with lofty matters and comedy as the most refined version of poetry dealing with base matters. He traces a …
A Summary and Analysis of Aristotle’s Poetics
网页What follows are some notes towards a summary and analysis of, and introduction to, Aristotle’s Poetics – the first great work of literary criticism in the Western world. So, what does Aristotle say? ‘Tragedy imitates the …
Tragedy - Theory, Catharsis, Aristotle | Britannica
- As the great period of Athenian drama drew to an end at the beginning of the 4th century bce, A…
Plato is answered, in effect and perhaps intentionally, by Aristotle’s Poetics. Aristotle defends the purgative power of tragedy and, in direct contradiction to Plato, makes moral ambiguity the essence of tragedy. The tragic hero must be neither a villain nor a virtuous man but a “characte… - To establish the basis for a reconciliation between ethical and artistic demands, Aristotle insists …
Later critics found justification for their own predilections in the authority of Greek drama and Aristotle. For example, the Roman poet Horace, in his Ars poetica (Art of Poetry), elaborated the Greek tradition of extensively narrating offstage events into a dictum on decorum forbidding eve…
- As the great period of Athenian drama drew to an end at the beginning of the 4th century bce, A…
Tragedy Analysis in Poetics - LitCharts
网页Tragedy, according to Aristotle, “is an imitation of an action that is admirable, complete and possesses magnitude.” Tragedy is written in “language made pleasurable” (meaning that …
Poetics Chapter 6 Summary & Analysis - SparkNotes
网页Aristotle now narrows his focus to examine tragedy exclusively. In order to do so, he provides a definition of tragedy that we can break up into seven parts: (1) it involves …
Poetics: Chapter 4 Summary & Analysis - LitCharts
网页According to Aristotle, tragedy “is an imitation of an action that is admirable, complete and possesses magnitude.” Tragedy is written in “language made pleasurable” (meaning …
Poetics: Chapter 7 Summary & Analysis - LitCharts
网页For Aristotle, a tragedy must elicit feelings of fear and pity to be considered a tragedy, and he again alludes here to the balance needed in poetry. A good character left with bad …
Aristotle on tragedy :: Internet Shakespeare Editions
网页His analysis and description of poetry and tragedy in a number of ways are directed against the teachings of Plato, who dismissed poets from his Republic as encouraging faulty …
Aristotle: Poetics - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
网页The five marks of tragedy that we learned of from Aristotle’s Poetics–that it imitates an action, arouses pity and fear, displays the human image as such, ends in wonder, and is …
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