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The Poetics Essays and Term Papers
Greek TheatreGreek Theatre
Theatre is a intricate form of art that consist of many different elements such as: a told story, a story that is embellished, a meeting place used for performances, the performers used to endorse the performance, costumes used to give the audience a better visual, a stage form of ...
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Oedipus the King and Aristotle's Views on TragedyTragedy According to Aristotle
In his Poetics Aristotle defines tragedy as the imitation of an action. This imitation and action are both serious, complete and important. The purpose of tragedy is to evoke pity and fear in the audience. At the end of the play a catharsis of pity and fear ...
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The Theme Of Nature In The Works Of Plato, Bryant, Twain, And ThoreauIn his Poetics, Plato contemplates the nature of aesthetics and
existence. He postulates that for every existing object and idea there is
an absolute "ideal" which transcends human experience. He further
concludes that art, including literature, is an aesthetic representation of
real objects ...
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Tragic Hero Characterization I"Pity and Awe, reconciliation, exaltation and a sense of emotion purged and purified thereby"1. As this quote from Aristotle's Poetics states, a tragedy must arouse feelings of pity and fear, thus producing a catharsis of these emotions in the audience. In order to arouse the emotions of the ...
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Chaucer's "The House Of Fame": The Cultural Nature Of FameQUESTION 7.
DISCUSS THE CULTURAL NATURE OF FAME AND ITS TEXTUAL EXPRESSION WITH REFERENCE TO
ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: ORAL HEROIC POETRY, CHAUCER'S DEPICTION IN THE
HOUSE OF FAME AND THE MODERN CONSTRUCTION OF THE CANON OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
YOU SHOULD FOCUS YOUR ANALYSIS ON THE INTERPLAY ...
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Oedipus RexThe great poet and philosopher Aristotle was a highly intellectual man who loved to reason. One of his ideas was his structured analysis of the quintessential “tragic hero” of Greek drama. In his work Poetics he defines a tragic hero as “...The man who on the one hand is not pre-eminent in ...
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Metadrama In Shakespeare‘Shakespeare’s plays reflect not life but art.’ Make use of this remark in writing an essay on Shakespeare’s use of Metadrama.
Shakespeare constantly plays with metadrama and the perception of his plays as theatre and not life with the complications inherent that in life we all play roles and ...
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The Life And Work Of Nemerov"Nemerov's contribution to our literature--as a gifted writer of
fiction and critical prose, but pre-eminently as a poet-- does not seem to
me to have received as much celebrity as it deserves. Nemerov's virtues are
all in fact unfashionable ones for our time: vivid intelligence, an
irreverent ...
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Macbeth Not A Victim Of Fate"The tragic hero must be neither villain nor a virtuous man but a 'character between these two extremes...a man who not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity but by some error or human frailty."
-Aristotle(Poetics)
Thesis:
Macbeth is not a victim ...
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Allen Ginsberg : HowlAllen Ginsberg and HOWL: Analysis and Response
Throughout the ages of poetry, there is a poet who stands alone, a prominent figure who represents the beliefs and morés of the time. During the 1950's and 1960's, the Beatnik era in America brought forth poets who wrote vivid, realistic poetry in ...
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Hamlet: Tragedy In HamletThe tradition of literature includes many genres. One of the oldest
and most important of these genres is tragedy; one of the foremost
Elizabethan tragedies in the canon of English literature is Hamlet by
William Shakespeare and one of the earliest critics of tragedy is Aristotle.
One way to ...
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Aristotlewas born in 384 BC and lived until 322 BC. He was a Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato being considered the most famous of ancient philosophers. He was born at Stagira, in Macedonia, the son of a physician to the royal court. When he was 17, he went to Athens to study at ...
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The Life Of AristotleWhen Plato died in 347 bc, Aristotle moved to Assos, a city in Asia Minor, where
a friend of his, Hermias (died 345 bc), was ruler. There he counseled Hermias
and married his niece and adopted daughter, Pythias. After Hermias was captured
and executed by the Persians, Aristotle went to Pella, the ...
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Allen Ginsburg In AmericaIrwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jeresy. Louis Ginsberg, Allen’s dad, was a published poet, a high school teacher and a Jewish Socialist. His wife, Naomi, was a radical Communist and nudist who went tragically insane in early adulthood. A shy and complicated child ...
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Tragic Hero (media)The tragic hero is usually not like an everyday person that is seen on the street. According to Aristotle's book, Poetics, four characteristics establish the essence of a tragic hero. This is very helpful in understanding why the tragic hero is a mediocre type of person. First of all the hero ...
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Emily DickensonFaith Is Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be. While much of Emily Dickinson's poetry has been described as sad or morose, the poet did use humor and irony in many of her poems. This essay will address the humor or irony found in five of Dickinson's poems: "Faith" is a Fine Invention" (185), ...
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Oedipus As An Epic Poem By AriOedipus as a Tragedy by Aristotle’s Definition
A tragedy by definition is “a drama which recounts an important and casually related series of events in the life of a person of significance, such events culminating in an unhappy catastrophe, the whole treated with great dignity
and ...
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Greek Literature.
The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once
commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . A similar point can
be made regarding as a whole.
Over a period of more than ten centuries, the ancient Greeks created a
literature of such brilliance that it ...
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A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In TheMore than a half century has passed since critics and theater-goers recognized Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) as an important American playwright, whose plays fellow dramaturge David Mamet calls "the greatest dramatic poetry in the American language" (qtd. in Griffin 13). Williams's repertoire ...
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