http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2012/07/11/teaching-with-aristotles-poetics/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2012/07/11/teaching-with-aristotles-poetics/#comment-318 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:15:00 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/litbits/?p=5535#comment-318 Carl, I’ve never had to teach The Rhetoric—luckily, only the much short Poetics. You make some fine suggestions about abridging.

]]> http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2012/07/11/teaching-with-aristotles-poetics/#comment-317 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 06:20:45 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/litbits/?p=5535#comment-317 The Poetics is far more readable than The Rhetoric. I have students read The Rhetoric in Survey. They do apply Aristotle in analysis, because his major points are easy to repeat and basis analysis using Aristotle is fairly easy. We do skip much of book II, the loci communes, since these arguments by and large don’t apply.
The Poetics I’ve worked thru several times since graduate school, but only taught with it once. I think you’re right, that it helps students gain flexibility in their playwriting, but I don’t teach playwriting.

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