Sunday, September 23, 2007
How to Watch A Movie Like Aristotle
The pattern of storytelling we are accustomed to in the West was put down in writing almost 2500 years ago in Aristotle’s classic treatment on epic poetry and tragedy, his Poetics. What Aristotle meant by ‘tragedy’ was what we call drama today.
7:38 pm. Tags: aristotle, poetics, storytelling, the-departed