Poetics
$13.49
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2000
Summary
Poetics: Unveiling the Soul of Art
Extraordinarily influential treatise on fine art contains seminal ideas on the nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more. Catharsis, tragic flaw, unities of time and place, and other concepts are explored in detail.
Among the most influential books in Western civilization, Aristotle’s Poetics is truly a treatise on fine art. It examines epic and dithyrambic poetry, tragedy, comedy, and even flute and lyre playing.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486295770 |
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| ISBN-10: | 048629577X |
| Series: | Dover Thrift Editions |
| Author: | Aristotle |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 55g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm x 5mm |
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About The Author
Aristotle
Francis Fergusson was a renowned classical scholar, translator, and literary critic. His works include “The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays,” “Sallies of the Mind: Essays,” “Trope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare,” and “Dante’s Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the “Purgatorio.”
S. H. Butcher was a translator and scholar who served as editor for the Dover Thrift Edition of the “Poetics,” as well as for the “Orationes, Volume 1” by Demosthenes. Butcher is also the author of “Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art.”
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