Poetics

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Poetics

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ISBN: 9780140446364
author: Aristotle
translator: Malcolm Heath
publishing house: Penguin Classics
publication date: 1997 -3
series: Penguin Classics
binding: Paperback
price: USD 7.00
number of pages: 144

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Aristotle    translator: Malcolm Heath

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Provides a translation of Aristotle's classic study of the nature of poetry.

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Introduction vii (2)
1. Human culture, poetry and the Poetics
ix (3)
2. Imitation
xii (3)
3. Aristotle's history of poetry
xv (3)
4. The analysis of tragedy
xviii (4)
5. Plot: the basics
xxii (6)
6. Reversal and recognition
xxviii (3)
7. The best kinds of tragic plot
xxxi (4)
8. The pleasure of tragedy
xxxv (8)
9. The other parts of tragedy
xliii (5)
10. Tragedy: miscellaneous aspects
xlviii (6)
11. Epic
liv (8)
12. Comedy
lxii (2)
13. Further reading
lxiv (2)
14. Reference conventions
lxvi (2)
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION lxviii (4)
SYNOPSIS OF THE POETICS lxxii
POETICS 1 (48)
NOTES TO THE TRANSLATION 49

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