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Subject: Aristotle & Oedipus
| Moran Lit & Comp Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, was one of the first “literary critics.” That is, he was one of the first people who set out to describe the categories of literature: what drama is, what epic is, what character is, what tragedy is, and so on. He wrote a lot about the dramatists who were contemporaries or near-contemporaries of his, like Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Aristotle’s definitions and descriptions of literary elements have been hugely influential for Western literature, and are worth learning. Use the following excerpt from Aristotle’s Poetics to help you defin |
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