POETICS

Former story analyst for Miramax Films, Michael Tierno, has built the bridge from the foundation of Aristotle's classic Poetics to the modern cinema in Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters.

In The Poetics of Aristotle, translated by Preston H. Epps, tragedy is defined as "an imitation, through action rather than narration, of a serious, complete, and ample action...

Would Aristotle's Poetics be banned from Plato's ideal republic? Most assuredly. Plato's standing as one of the all time great thinkers in history is certainly up for argument with each passing year.

Applying Louis Zukofsky's Objectivist poesia to one of my poems.

This is a succinct summary of Aristotle's Poetics. It's very helpful for students studying the work and who want to understand the main ideas.

What inspires Juliet Cook's poeticism and how did that change after she experienced a stroke, aphasia, and divorce?

In the Poetics, Aristotle described tragedy as "an imitation of an action that is serious, complete in itself, and of a certain magnitude."

A look at the theme of death in "Love Story," "To Friends Who Have Also Considered Suicide," and "Poetics Against the Angel of Death," Also, covering the recurring theme of nihilism in these three poetic works.

A look at the architecture of poetics

A review of the novel by Sam Kashner about the his time as the first student of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and his interaction with the aging Beat writers.

At 8:00 pm, owner Dave Brinks (author of The Snow Poems, First Snow, Editor of Yawp: A Journal of Poetry and Art) rushed past a row of classic video games (Donkey Kong, Asteroids

The film is surprisingly smart for the genre.

Corneill's play begins and follows the pattern of a typical tragedy, but has a cookie-cutter happy comedic ending which has led to the term "Tragicomedy" being used to describe it.

Close reading of Wyatt's poem "They Flee From Me"

The major effect of the Pardoner's presence is to focus the reader's attention to questions of performance and performativity...

This lesson is designed help students understand tragic flaws. Through this lesson the students will apply the definitions of tragic literary terms in order to better understand the literary genre of tragedy and how it applies to their lives.

Covers "writing" from the general to the more intricate aspects.

Get through writer's block by driving yourself mad, maintaining order, and then having fun with the outcome.

The endurance of Greek theatre & democracy suggests that they are or were strongly connected. Greek tragedy offers a system of unity that is not found in today's individualist culture.

"What's in a word?" The phrase is a common one. We have all heard it countless times. Words and language are an integral part of our psyche; they give shape and meaning to the things that surround us, but also, to the person and people that use them.

A look at Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol not as a children's story but as a piece of complex satirical literature.

One can clearly see Beckett's developing attitude towards women via the evloution and eventual abandonment of the placement of female characters in Dantean environments in his dramatic works.

A comparison of two plays to determine which better suits Aristotle's definition of Tragedy.

Naguib Mahfouz' Miramar provides material for a thorough structural analysis, in the structure of language used as well as the structure of the novel itself.

Wielding his words like an artist's brush, Carroll illustrates Alice's powers of reason, gives her identity, explores rules of conversation, and finally shows the absurdity of reading too much into written words.