Poetics

Aristotle's short treatise on tragedy set the vocabulary that writers and critics still use for plot, character and emotional effect. Working from the Greek drama of his own day, he breaks storytelling into parts and asks what makes some arrangements of events more affecting than others, arriving at ideas about unity, reversal and recognition. The argument is compact, and this pocket edition puts the English text in a size small enough to annotate or carry between seminars. What readers find here: • A foundational text on dramatic structure and narrative craft • Terms and concepts referenced across literature and film studies • Brief enough to read in one sitting, dense enough to reread • Pocket format suited to seminar use and marginal notes Useful to literature students, writers and readers of classical philosophy, offered in the Pocket Classics format by Boipoka.