Description
Product ID: | 9780140446364 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Poetics |
Authors: | Author: Aristotle |
Page Count: | 144 |
Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary theory, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Greece, English |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Suitable for all students of Greek theatre and literature, this book examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1996-09-26 |