Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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Page 35
... tragedy , catharsis - 11 . plot and character , spectacle , the ideal tragic hero - III . hamartia ( three ... TRAGEDY " ALMOST AS IF IT WERE synonymous with " poetry . " Aristotle does the same , or at least he devotes a large part of ...
... tragedy , catharsis - 11 . plot and character , spectacle , the ideal tragic hero - III . hamartia ( three ... TRAGEDY " ALMOST AS IF IT WERE synonymous with " poetry . " Aristotle does the same , or at least he devotes a large part of ...
Page 55
... tragedy is the tragedy of necessity : i.e. , the feeling aroused in the spectator is " What a pity it had to be this way " ; Christian tragedy is the trag- edy of possibility , " What a pity it was this way when it might have been other ...
... tragedy is the tragedy of necessity : i.e. , the feeling aroused in the spectator is " What a pity it had to be this way " ; Christian tragedy is the trag- edy of possibility , " What a pity it was this way when it might have been other ...
Page 160
... Tragedy of Orbecche , 1541 , his Apology for his tragedy Dido , 1543 , his treatise On the Composi- tion of Comedies and Tragedies , 1543 , or Giangiorgio Trissino's Poetica , 1529-1563 , a work in part apologetic for his own epic Italy ...
... Tragedy of Orbecche , 1541 , his Apology for his tragedy Dido , 1543 , his treatise On the Composi- tion of Comedies and Tragedies , 1543 , or Giangiorgio Trissino's Poetica , 1529-1563 , a work in part apologetic for his own epic Italy ...
Contents
Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
Copyright | |
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