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Among the most influential books in Western civilization, Aristotle's Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. In it are mentioned not only epic and dithyrambic poetry, but tragedy, comedy, and flute and lyre playing. Aristotle's conception of tragedy, i.e. the depiction of a heroic action that arouses pity and fear in the spectators and brings about a catharsis of those emotions, has helped perpetuate the Greek ideal of drama to the present day. Similarly, his dictums concerning unity of time and place, the necessity for a play to have a beginning, middle, and end, the idea of the tragic flaw and other concepts have had enormous influence down through the ages.
Throughout the work, Aristotle reveals not only a great intellect analyzing the nature of poetry, music, and drama, but also a down-to-earth understanding of the practical problems facing the poet and playwright. Now, in this inexpensive edition of the Poetics, readers can enjoy the seminal insights of one of the greatest minds in human history as he sets about laying the foundations of critical thought about the arts.
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Table of contents
1I ‘IMITATION’ THE COMMON PRINCIPLE OF THE ARTS OF POETRY
2II THE OBJECTS OF IMITATION
3III THE MANNER OF IMITATION
4IV THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF POETRY
5V DEFINITION OF THE LUDICROUS, AND A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE RISE OF COMEDY
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6VI DEFINITION OF TRAGEDY
7VII THE PLOT MUST BE A WHOLE
8VIII THE PLOT MUST BE A UNITY
9IX (PLOT CONTINUED.) DRAMATIC UNITY
10X (PLOT CONTINUED.) DEFINITIONS OF SIMPLE AND COMPLEX PLOTS
11XI (PLOT CONTINUED.) REVERSAL OF THE SITUATION, RECOGNITION, AND TRAGIC OR DISASTROUS INCIDENT DEFINED AND EXPLAINED
12XII THE ‘QUANTITATIVE PARTS’ OF TRAGEDY DEFINED
13XIII (PLOT CONTINUED.) WHAT CONSTITUTES TRAGIC ACTION
14XIV (PLOT CONTINUED.) THE TRAGIC EMOTIONS OF PITY AND FEAR SHOULD SPRING OUT OF THE PLOT ITSELF
15XV THE ELEMENT OF CHARACTER IN TRAGEDY
16XVI (PLOT CONTINUED.) RECOGNITION: ITS VARIOUS KINDS, WITH EXAMPLES
17XVII PRACTICAL RULES FOR THE TRAGIC POET
18XVIII FURTHER RULES FOR THE TRAGIC POET
19XIX THOUGHT, OR THE INTELLECTUAL ELEMENT, AND DICTION IN TRAGEDY
20XX DICTION, OR LANGUAGE IN GENERAL
21XXI POETIC DICTION
22XXII (POETIC DICTION CONTINUED.) HOW POETRY COMBINES ELEVATION OF LANGUAGE WITH PERSPICUITY
23XXIII EPIC POETRY
24XXIV (EPIC POETRY CONTINUED.) FURTHER POINTS OF AGREEMENT WITH TRAGEDY
25XXV CRITICAL OBJECTIONS BROUGHT AGAINST POETRY, AND THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THEY ARE TO BE ANSWERED
26XXVI A GENERAL ESTIMATE OF THE COMPARATIVE WORTH OF EPIC POETRY AND TRAGEDY
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