Summary
Aristotle: The Doctrine of Poetic Art
Reprint edition from 1912
Aristotle's Poetics with translation and commentary by Martin Kuzmic
Poetics or On Poetic Art is one of Aristotle's most famous works, which in 26 chapters talks about poetry, analyzes, classifies and describes it. Poetics can be imagined as a study that develops from the consideration of the general nature of literature, through the analysis of an individual literary work to the consideration of literary types as special forms within which each individual literary work is realized. From its foundation, it was conceived as "about the poetic art as such and about its individual forms", as stated in the introduction to Aristotle's Poetics. Literature develops in a series of formations of special forms of literary genres, therefore the study of the principles of formation is of great importance both for understanding literature as a whole and for understanding the way in which individual literary works are formed within each genre. This part of literary theory is called poetics. The study of literary works presupposes a certain principled consideration of the nature of literature, and from this understanding comes the understanding of the characteristics of individual literary works, that is, the study of how literary works can be analyzed.
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