{"product_id":"aristotles-poetics-paperback","title":"Aristotle's Poetics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAristotle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eS. H. Butcher\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eFrancis Fergusson\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduced by Francis Fergusson, the \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e, written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental one we have. It has been used by both playwrights and theorists of many periods, and interpreted, in the course of its two thousand years of life, in various ways. The literature which has accumulated around it is, as Mr. Fergusson points out, \"full of disputes so erudite that the nonspecialist can only look on in respectful silence.\" But the \u003ci\u003ePoetics \u003c\/i\u003eitself is still with us, in all its suggestiveness, for the modern reader to make use of in his turn and for his own purposes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrancis Fergusson's lucid, informative, and entertaining Introduction will prove invaluable to anyone who wishes to understand and appreciate the\u003ci\u003e Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e. Using Sophocles' \u003ci\u003eOedipus Rex\u003c\/i\u003e, as Aristotle did, to illustrate his analysis, Mr. Fergusson pints out that Aristotle did not lay down strict rules, as is often thought: \"The \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e,\" he says, \"is much more like a cookbook than it is like a textbook of elementary engineering.\" Read in this way, it is an essential guide not only to Sophoclean tragedy, but to the work of so modern a playwright as Bertolt Brecht, who considered his own \"epic drama\" the first non-Aristotelian form.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther works by the renowned classical scholar, translator, and literary critic \u003cb\u003eFrancis Fergusson\u003c\/b\u003e include \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSallies of the Mind: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTrope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the \u003c\/i\u003ePurgatorio. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslator and scholar \u003cb\u003eS. H. Butcher\u003c\/b\u003e served as editor for the Dover Thift Edition of the \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as for the \u003ci\u003eOrationes, Volume 1\u003c\/i\u003e by Demosthenes. Butcher is also the author of \u003ci\u003eAristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 7.3 x 4.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1961\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700629114976,"sku":"9780809005277","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/aristotles-poetics-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}