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Poetics (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
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Nov 10, 2020
bookshelves: english-editions, e-4, philosophy, poetry, art, mythology, greek-literature
After taking the plunge (it's still nothing to say that we are about to read an author of about 300 BC), I am in the company of Aristotle. My first impression was, "Actually, it's not as bad as I imagined."
Indeed, some terms remain beyond our reach, but they should not fool us. Please read the text as you would a foreign language, passing over incomprehensible words to grasp the essence of the text.
This little work is interesting, with sixty pages of text and four pages of notes. We learn how to produce such an effect on the reader (or the spectator), arouse such emotion, and arrange the facts between them. Even today, writers are inspired by Aristotle to write their stories. I understand why today.
Indeed, some terms remain beyond our reach, but they should not fool us. Please read the text as you would a foreign language, passing over incomprehensible words to grasp the essence of the text.
This little work is interesting, with sixty pages of text and four pages of notes. We learn how to produce such an effect on the reader (or the spectator), arouse such emotion, and arrange the facts between them. Even today, writers are inspired by Aristotle to write their stories. I understand why today.
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November 10, 2020
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November 11, 2021
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english-editions
December 24, 2021
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July 12, 2023
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philosophy
July 12, 2023
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poetry
July 12, 2023
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art
July 12, 2023
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mythology
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Nov 11, 2020 10:56AM
Glad it wasn’t so bad, Luis. I enjoy the Greeks, although I prefer the playwrights to the philosophers. but that is just me.
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David wrote: "Glad it wasn’t so bad, Luis. I enjoy the Greeks, although I prefer the playwrights to the philosophers. but that is just me."I try, sometimes, to combine one genre with the other. Sometimes I can. Sometimes I don't.
I was wondering how long I was going to avoid reading this. Thanks Luis, I am now seriously considering reading it before the end of the year
Abeselom wrote: "I was wondering how long I was going to avoid reading this. Thanks Luis, I am now seriously considering reading it before the end of the year"thank you for reading!
I am working my way through 19th-century French novelist. It will take me a while to get to the Greeks, although I have read a play or two.
I was sure I pluralized the word novelist. Hm. I did, but spellchecker refuses to let me. I guess there was only one 19th Century French novelist. I wonder what his name was.
Cookie M. wrote: "I am working my way through 19th-century French novelist. It will take me a while to get to the Greeks, although I have read a play or two."I'm still away from the Greeks, too. I will need to catch them.
Cookie M. wrote: "I was sure I pluralized the word novelist. Hm. I did, but spellchecker refuses to let me. I guess there was only one 19th Century French novelist. I wonder what his name was."I don't know well who was it.
