Poetics by Aristotle
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Oedipus Rex as a Tragedy
Oedipus Rex is an ancient Greek tragedy. It is so typical of the classical tragedies that Aristotle took it as…
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Define Tragedy and Its Elements
Introduction Tragedy is a genre of drama that was developed in Greece around the 6th century BCE. As Aristotle defines…
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Aristotle’s Concept of Catharsis Explained
In Poetics, Aristotle writes that the perform of tragedy is to arouse the feelings of “pity and fear, wherewith to…
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Explain the Concept of Tragedy by Aristotle
The word tragedy brings to thoughts Aristotle and the Poetics. Some points of the definition and discussion of tragedy within…
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Aristotle’s Concept of “Plot”
Introduction: – Aristotle’s Poetics has usually been accused of being ‘lopsided’ in its treatment of the topic of poetry, of…
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Aristotle’s Theory of Imitation
Aristotle didn’t invent the term “imitation”. Plato was the first to make use of the phrase in relation with poetry,…
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