Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 3D rendered illustration of a sculpture of Aristotle. Yueh Chiang/Shutterstock Aristotle's Poetics has arguably influenced modern ...

There are many poets on note, and while I was wondering what 'poetry' actually is, I happened to come across Aristotle's ...

Writers-to-be, unite! Actually, writers-who-already-are, feel free to come along, too. Philip Freeman, who holds the Fletcher Jones Chair in humanities at Pepperdine University, has issued a new and ...

I have a problem with Aristotle. Not the Aristotle who pondered being, politics, or ethics, but the Aristotle who, in the wake of Greek tragedy, tried to nail what made those great plays so great. His ...

Twice in the Poetics Aristotle contrasts poetry with history. Whatever its didactic value, the contrast has not seemed to readers of special philosophical interest. The aim of this paper is to show ...

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 ...

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(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...

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 ...