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Poetics
- Author
- Aristotle
- Narrator
- Nicholas Khan, Roy McMillan
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 25 February 2021
- Run Time
- 3 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Nicholas Khan, best known for their role in Transformers. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Malcolm Heath, read by Roy McMillan.
One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history
In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle 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. Taking examples from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the Poetics introduced into literary criticism such central concepts as mimesis ('imitation'), hamartia ('error') and katharsis ('purification'). Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication and resolution, recognition and reversals. The Poetics has informed thinking about drama ever since.
© Malcolm Heath 1996 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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Details
- Author
- Aristotle
- Narrator
- Nicholas Khan, Roy McMillan
- Duration
- 3 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 February 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241524602
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Essays, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary theory
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Nicholas Khan, best known for their role in Transformers. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Malcolm Heath, read by Roy McMillan.One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle 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. Taking examples from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the Poetics introduced into literary criticism such central concepts as mimesis ('imitation'), hamartia ('error') and katharsis ('purification'). Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication and resolution, recognition and reversals. The Poetics has informed thinking about drama ever since.© Malcolm Heath 1996 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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