5/13/2023 0 Comments Aristotle book poetics![]() ![]() ![]() Hamartia or "miscalculation" (in Romanticism = "tragic flaw") Such terms in this tiny (50 page), yet tightly packed treatise include:Ĭatharsis or, variously, "purgation", "purification", "clarification"Īnagnorisis or "recognition", "identification" His Poetics (335 BCE) is a philosophical text on aesthetics, dramatic theory and the laws of literature, and at 2400 years old is the first of its kind.Īnyone who studies literature will find tons of huge and unwieldy sounding Greek words that might be confusing, but in Poetics much of them are well-defined. Back in Aristotle's day "poetry" included a much wider sphere than it does today, including drama, comedy, tragedy, and the more obvious epic and lyric poetry - it's a term that literally means "making" in this context. ![]()
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