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Poetika

Aristotle

3.58 AVERAGE

informative reflective medium-paced

After reading fiction, poetry, and seeing plays for so many years, the ideas in Poetics seem so familiar. It is easy to forget that it was written and attributed to Aristotle many centuries ago.

[3,5]

Every writer should read this, because a lot Aristotle's rules for good writing are still on point after 2,300 years.

This dude was so clearly a STEM student trying to write an english paper and it like KINDA works until he tries to use “tragedy math” to make women inferior to men and justify slave labor. Other than that, he explains storytelling well and uses great examples from greek mythology/history
informative medium-paced

El curso de referencia sobre teatro y narrativa desde hace más de 2000 años.
challenging informative reflective fast-paced

Aristotle could get it
informative fast-paced

Is it weird I disagree with Aristotle on some of this? He obviously didn’t know what storytelling would become 2000+ years in the future but he also contradicted himself a lot on some of his assertions.

They say this is necessary reading for literary analysis. I’d say just read a summary.