In his Poetics, Aristotle argued that art, particularly tragedy, imitates life and has the power to evoke emotions like pity and fear, leading to catharsis. Aristotle introduced the idea of hexis ...

by an overthrow of all things.” Aristotle’s “Poetics” also explores the characteristics, construction, and petitions (with rebuttals) of the dramatic tragedy, drawing on the classical ...

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a cautionary tale about what happens when we value cheap entertainment over activities like reading and reflection, activities that take work and patience and a ...

Source: Unsplash/Freddy Kearney Such an understanding of art tracks all the way back to Aristotle who, in his Poetics, argues that the tragic stage provides spectators with a means of purging ...

She is the author of “Urban Poetics in the French Renaissance” and numerous articles ... that this limit must be thought of in terms of temporality. He has written on Aristotle, Diodorus Cronus, ...

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...