Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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... comic catharsis , Old Comedy and New , lampooning vs. general significance , label names , comic types in Aristotle's Ethics , Theophrastan Charac- ters , the comic universal , tragic and comic hamartia - VI . tragic and comic ...
... comic catharsis , Old Comedy and New , lampooning vs. general significance , label names , comic types in Aristotle's Ethics , Theophrastan Charac- ters , the comic universal , tragic and comic hamartia - VI . tragic and comic ...
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... comic mimesis as a dangerous contagion ; he would man the comic stage with slaves and hired strangers . Aristotle remarks in his Politics ( VII , 7 ) that " the legislator should not allow youth to be spectators of iambi or of comedy ...
... comic mimesis as a dangerous contagion ; he would man the comic stage with slaves and hired strangers . Aristotle remarks in his Politics ( VII , 7 ) that " the legislator should not allow youth to be spectators of iambi or of comedy ...
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... comic character and that of the tragic . In the Ethics of Aristotle virtue is reasonable activity along a line of moderation , on both sides of which are the vices of extremity . A slant toward comic theory is quite pronounced in the ...
... comic character and that of the tragic . In the Ethics of Aristotle virtue is reasonable activity along a line of moderation , on both sides of which are the vices of extremity . A slant toward comic theory is quite pronounced in the ...
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Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
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