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Aristotles's View of Tragedy
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Aristotles's View of Tragedy
Discusses social and cultural context. Major theories of the "Poetics" including: Consequences of actions & emotional & sensory impact on audience.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
4 sources |
2001
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"This research examines Aristotle's views of tragedy. The research will set forth the social and cultural context in which those views emerged and then discuss how Aristotle develops them in the Poetics.Whether in his treatments of the physical cosmos or in such works as the Nichomachean Ethics, Politics, or Rhetoric, Aristotle clearly makes certain assumptions about his readership and the society in which he articulates his ideas. He assumes that man is a social being and that society is a serious enterprise, suffused with politics and a sense of purpose, as well as with a strong (though sometimes vague and sometimes suppressed) moral sense. The reason that seems important to point out is that Golden Age Greece was also beset by wars of conquest and massacre; Aristotle is famous not least as a tutor of ..."
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Aristotles's View of Tragedy (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Aristotles's-View-of-Tragedy/10967
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"Aristotles's View of Tragedy" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Aristotles's-View-of-Tragedy/10967>
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