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Aristotle
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ISBN: 048629577x
Page Count: 64
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
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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