Aristotle - Literature Diary

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Aristotle’s concept of ideal tragic hero: Hamartia

No passage in “The Poetics” with the exception of the Catharsis phrase has attracted so much critical attention as his…

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Aristotle writes that the function of tragedy is to arouse the emotions of pity and fear, and to affect the…

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Aristotle did not invent the term “imitation”. Plato was the first to use the word in relation with poetry, but…

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Aristotle devotes great attention to the nature, structure and basic elements of the ideal tragic plot. Tragedy is the depiction…