Aristotle’s Poetics has arguably influenced modern culture more than any other ancient text. The Greek philosopher’s 4th century BCE treatise on what constitutes the best form of poetry is our ...

Michael Tierno's "Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters" delivers those rare goods, rising above the usual how-to level by plumbing the philosopher's masterwork for truths relevant to today's ...

The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 136, No. 4 (WINTER 2015), pp. 577-606 (30 pages) There are two related problems in the Poetics: Aristotle's contradictory statements about size, and Aristotle's ...

Aristotles Poetics (Greek: ; Latin: De Poetica) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an ...

Poetics by Aristotle is “the first surviving work devoted to literary criticism”. I was first told it was essential reading (to the point of it being an embarrassment not to have imbibed every page ...

Research-based teaching, critical thinking and interdisciplinary learning are buzz words echoing around the hallowed halls of third level education across Europe. But what happens when you try to put ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy and ...

The theme of Aristotle’s Poetics is not poetry as we now conceive of it, but the imitative arts. The first book treats especially of tragedy and epic poetry. Because the second book addressed comedy, ...