Poetics

by Aristotle

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MightyLeaf | Apr 5, 2009 |

get yo' philosophy on. (

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TakeItOrLeaveIt | Feb 21, 2009 |

Helped get me into university

clamato | May 28, 2007 |

LOVE IT. LOVE IT. LOVE IT. Explains the art of storytelling so well. So profound. Why couldn't even the primary school teachers have told us to read this?! I did not even stumble across this until university. For shame, I felt! For the logic and the blatant obviousness of it all after you read it! Like a lightbulb that went, AHAH~! (

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NicoleHC | May 16, 2007 |

This is the first book ever written about screenwriting. Seriously. A must read for anyone who aspires to write for film. (

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Among the most influential books in Western civilization, the Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. It offers seminal ideas on the nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more, including such concepts as catharsis, the tragic flaw, unities of time and place and other rules of drama.

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