Aristotle's Poetics
by Aristotle, James Hutton
List Price:
Our Price: $6.14
You Save: $10.91 (64%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $3.50 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Aristotle, James HuttonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1983-01
ISBN: 0393952169
Number of pages: 115
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Reviews of Aristotle's Poetics
Book Review: Written in an awkward style but well worth it
Summary: 4 Stars
It would have got 5 stars but I deducted a star for its awkward prose.
It is in the middle chapters that this book really delivers. Especially the chapter entitled 'falibility and misfortune'.
A word of warning: you need to read two books before this one:
1: Robert McKee's "Story" because he is effectively a neo-Aristotelian.
2: The original text of the Poetics translated by Malcolm Heath. A nice short book at 70 some pages. This is because Halliwell's book [Aristotle's Poetics] does not contain a translation. To further complicate the issue he has also written a translation which is called "The Poetics of Aristotle: translation and commentary" which obviously DOES contain the translation.
So, if you like Robert McKee, buy this book ie Aritotle's Poetics.
What you will notice from reading this book is how much better McKee is at getting his ideas across.
Spephen Halliwell is very fond of using words and phrases such as 'adduce' 'cogent' and 'the negative corrolary of which'. His sentences are ... very complicated in structure when a more simple and direct style would be appropriate. Believe me, I know becasue that last sentence of mine is lifted straight out of my school report.
So, why should you buy this book after reading McKee?
Because this book analyses tragedy, you'll then need to think about what halliwell states but in McKee terms because they are easier to understand.
eg Unity and variety is basically just the protagonist's superobjective tieing the story together [eg I need to get the treasure/man/woman/revenge/redemption] but Halliwell won't say that.
But it IS worth it - if you want to understand tragedy esp Macbeth with its non-Aristotelian protagonist.
Now, if you really want to understand tragedy you need to also read Stephen Boothe's "King Lear and Macbeth: Indeffinition and Tragedy" - in that book Boothe slaughers Aristotle and he even apologies for it in the preface saying all his students who reviewed his book told him to effectively calm down.
Literature & Fiction Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Van Gogh's Ear & the Bourgeois Bastards
Marc Johnson - Bass DesiresRelease date: 2000-09-12; Music CD
Best price: $17.98
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)Sony; Release date: 2001-10-23; DVD
Best price: $9.83
Price in other shops:
Boulez: Notations; Structures; ...explosante-fixe...Release date: 1996-01-23; Music CD
Best price: $117.14
My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis Bunuelby Luis Bunuel
Vintage; Published: 1984-10-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $29.95
Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locustby Nathanael West
New Directions Publishing Corporation; Published: 1969-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.29
Price in other shops:
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze: And Other Stories (New Directions Classic)by William Saroyan
New Directions Publishing Corporation; Published: 1997-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.82
Price in other shops:
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Manby Marshall McLuhan, Lewis H. Lapham
The MIT Press; Published: 1994-10-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.70
Price in other shops:
ContemptEmbassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.; Release date: 1991-03-28; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $12.00
Price in other shops:
Aristotle's Poeticsby Aristotle, James Hutton
W. W. Norton & Company; Published: 1983-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.50
Price in other shops:
George Carlin - Back in TownRelease date: 1996-09-17; Music CD
Best price: $4.40
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles
Harvest Books; Published: 2002-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.90
Price in other shops:
The Sketch Book for the Artistby Sarah Simblet
DK ADULT; Published: 2005-05-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $17.55
Price in other shops:
The Hero with a Thousand Facesby Joseph Campbell, Ralph Blum
Macmillan Audio; Published: 1995-03-15; Audio Cassette; Book
Best price: $23.23
Making a Good Script Greatby Linda Seger
Samuel French; Published: 1994-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.66
Price in other shops:
Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae (The Complete Greek Tragedies)by Euripides
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2002-01-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.00
Price in other shops:
Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters: Storytelling Secrets From the Greatest Mind in Western Civilizationby Michael Tierno
Published: 2002-07-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.21
Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions)by Epictetus
Dover Publications; Published: 2004-01-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.78
Price in other shops:
Speak With Distinction (Textbook and CD)by Edith Skinner, Lilene Mansell
Applause Books; Published: 2000-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $32.96
Price in other shops:
Make Your Voice Heard: An Actor's Guide to Increased Dramatic Range Through Vocal Trainingby Chuck Jones
Back Stage Books; Published: 2005-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.36
Price in other shops:
Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motivesby Lajos Egri
bnpublishing.com; Published: 2007-10-18; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.54
Price in other shops: