5/12/2023 0 Comments Aristotle book poetics![]() ![]() For his teacher, Plato, the stories conveyed via poetry were all risk and no reward. First, there is the idea that stories provide catharsis. But the work is probably most famous for two ideas. This short book is organized to dissect tragedy along many lines, laying out the four kinds of tragedy (complex, pathetic, ethical, and simple,) the segments of a tragedy (prologue, episode, exode, choric song, parode, and stasimon,) etc. Plato,) it is surprisingly readable and much of the information presented has aged well. Considering the age of this book and that it came from the student of one who was not a fan of poetics at all (i.e. “Poetics” is the surviving volume of Aristotle’s guide to literary criticism. ![]()
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