Summary
Florence Dupont: Aristotle or the Vampire of the Western Theater
Florence Dupont's latest book, "Aristotle or the Vampire of the Western Theater" (2007), has the provocative power of her earlier works: her intention is to deconstruct Aristotle's Poetics and its categories (the holy trinity: catharsis, mimesis and myth, renamed fable) and to show the extent to which a theoretical writing, the fruit of a single system of thought, has become a timeless reality that to this day shapes the world's theater scenes and makes changes impossible.
This extremely important book, which breaks theoretical clichés, is at the same time an unconventional history of the most important stages in the history of Western theater, written, among other things, with the intention of helping to get out of contemporary Aristotelianism "so that the viewer would no longer be bored in the theater". Highly erudite and simple at the same time, written more like an essay than a university study, Florence Dupont's book will find a wide range of readers among theater scholars, theater practitioners, students of general literature and students of classical languages and literature, but also among ordinary readers who might find in it reasons for interest in theater and hope that they will not get bored in it.
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