Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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... hamartia . Etymologically , this means the missing of a mark with bow and arrow , an unskillful but not morally culpable act . And according to one school of thought hamartia in Greek drama is mainly an accent upon a larger tragedy of ...
... hamartia . Etymologically , this means the missing of a mark with bow and arrow , an unskillful but not morally culpable act . And according to one school of thought hamartia in Greek drama is mainly an accent upon a larger tragedy of ...
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... ( hamartia ) but as a kind of vice ( kakia ) .1 VII , 4 In yet another passage ( Ethics III , 1 ) even rooted and wicked ignorance , ( 4 ) in the list above , is alluded to as hamartia . Hamartia ( error ) and its concrete equivalent ...
... ( hamartia ) but as a kind of vice ( kakia ) .1 VII , 4 In yet another passage ( Ethics III , 1 ) even rooted and wicked ignorance , ( 4 ) in the list above , is alluded to as hamartia . Hamartia ( error ) and its concrete equivalent ...
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... hamartia . ( The nearly synonymous hamartēma is the name of the comic flaw in Aristotle's definition of comedy . ) Tragedy takes hamartia literally but magnifies its punishment - and is thus fearful and pitiful . Comedy distorts hamartia ...
... hamartia . ( The nearly synonymous hamartēma is the name of the comic flaw in Aristotle's definition of comedy . ) Tragedy takes hamartia literally but magnifies its punishment - and is thus fearful and pitiful . Comedy distorts hamartia ...
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