Making Sense of Aristotle Essays in Poetics

Oivind Anderson, Jon Haarberg

Hardback (30 Mar 2001)

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Publisher's Synopsis

What is the importance of poetry? Why do we enjoy the experience of tragic distress? Does Roman tragedy reflect Aristotelian poetics? In what ways can Aristotle's "Poetics" be read and interpreted? To what kind of use can it be put?;Such are the questions discussed in this collection of essays, which examines one of the most seminal as well as cryptic texts of Western criticism - a text that still triggers essential deliberations about literature and the ways in which we relate to it.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780715631263
Publisher:	Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Imprint:	Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Pub date:	30 Mar 2001
Language:	English
Number of pages:	256
Weight:	104g
Height:	300mm
Width:	210mm