Aristotle's major critical work 'Poetic and Rhetoric'
Poetic - deals with art of poetry
Rhetoric - deals with art of speech
The main purpose of this work is to establish the characteristic features of good poet and good orator.
Regarding Drama he says, "Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of a certain magnitude"
Aristotle's six constituent parts of tragedy: Plot, Characters, Thought, Diction, Song, Spectacle.
"without action there cannot be a tragedy" by Aristotle.
Structuralism:
It emphasis on the language. New criticism is a term coined by JOHN RANSOM'S ESSAY (1941) . It is must to deal with New criticism before deal with structuralism. It creates new ideas and thoughts regarding the work. Structuralists believed the world is organized as structures.
Ferdinand de Saussure's 'A Course in General Linguistics' significant moves in his analysis of language. He coined the two terms called LANGUE & PAROLE............
-To Be Continue......
"Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of a certain magnitude, in language with pleasurable accessories, in a dramatic form and not in narrative form, with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions."
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Good job.. Both of u@ karthy nd Ragavi
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