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Aristotle DRAMATICS: also known as POETICS

Aristotle DRAMATICS: also known as POETICS

Scott, Gregory L.

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 1952627001
ISBN13: 9781952627002
Publisher: Existenceps Press
Published: Jun 1 2020
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

This is the first translation and commentary of Aristotle's work that assumes the Northern Greek from Stagira employs the sense of poiēsis given by Diotima in Plato's Symposium, mousikē kai metra (music-dance and verse), rather than the sense coined by the sophist Gorgias around 415 BCE, language in meter. Perennial problems--like why the treatise has not one poem and why the Stagirite never even mentions the purely literary genres in a work long known as the Poetics--therefore simply dissolve. Aristotle's theory, which focusses on musical drama and which has music and dance in the definition of tragedy, concentrates on only three art forms: tragedy, comedy and epic (which is noted in its definition to be dramatic and which was performed by rhapsodes typically singing, with gestures that count as ordered body movement or dance for the Greeks).

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