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作者：  威廉

出版社：人民文学出版社 2016年11月

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威廉·莎士比亚（W.WilliamShakespeare，1564－1616）是欧洲文艺复兴时期最重要的作家，杰出的戏剧家和诗人，他在欧洲文学史上占有特殊的地位，被喻为“人类文学奥林匹克山上的宙斯”。 他亦跟古希腊三大戏剧家埃斯库罗斯(Aeschylus)、索福克里斯(Sophocles)及欧里庇得斯(Euripides)合称戏剧史上四大戏剧家。本书精选莎翁最有代表性的五部喜剧（《威尼斯商人》《仲夏夜之梦》《第十二夜》《无事生非》《皆大欢喜》），采用朱生豪经典译文和精美彩色、黑白插图。

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简介：Includes fiction by Kate Chopin, Gail Godwin, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Faulkner, Grace Paley, Dickens, Melville, Hawthorne, Eudora Welty, Hemingway, Alice Munro, Chekhov, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Anne Porter, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, Garcia Marquez, Tillie Olsen, Mark Twain, Poe, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Cade Bambara, John Cheever, Joyce, Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Updike, Yukio Mishima, Louise Erdrich, Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, E.L. Doctorow, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. others. Includes poems by Marge Piercy, Robert Hayden, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, John Donne, Nikki Giovanni, Emily Dickinson, Randall Jarrell, Maxine Kumin, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Richard Wilbur, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Thomas Hardy, David R. Slavitt, Gwendolyn Brooks, Stevie Smith, Jane Kenyon, William Carlos Williams, Adelaide Crapsey, Walt Whitman, Theodore Roethke, Matthew Arnold, H.D., William Blake, Wilfred Owen, Margaret Atwood, Robert Lowell, Mark Strand, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Bradstreet, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Wordsworth, Robert Graves, May Swenson, Robert Frost, Poe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Crane, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Eberhart, D.H. Lawrence, Louise Bogan, Robert Browning, Ezra Pound, Leonard Cohen, Galway Kinnell, Richard Armour, Robert Southey, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lewis Carroll, Jean Toomer, Pope, Yeats, A.E. Housman, Ben Jonson, Dorothy Parker, Tennyson, Richard Lovelace, Shakespeare, Basho, Seamus Heaney, Shelley, George Herbert, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Carolyn Forche, Sharon Olds, Keats, W.H. Auden, Robert Bly, Rupert Brooke, Robert Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Countee Cullen, Lucille Clifton, James Dickey, T.S. Eliot, Donald Hall, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, X.J. Kennedy, Audre Lord, Archibald MacLeish, Claude McKay, Christopher Marlowe, Milton, Ogden Nash, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, John Crowe Ransom, Anne Sexton, Delmore Schwartz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Wallace Stevens, Anna Akhmatove, Claribel Alegria, Baudelaire, Garcia Lorca, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Rilke, Sappho, Amy Clampitt, Robert Creeley, Rita Dove, and others. Includes drama and writings on drama by Sophocles, Aristotle, Muriel Rukeyser, Jean Anouilh, Maurice Sagoff, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Freud, Moliere, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Samuel Beckett, Martin Esslin, Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Wole Soyinka, James Gibb, Caryl Churchill, August Wilson, David Henry Hwang, Owen Davis, Susan Glaspell, Eric Bentley, David Savran, Susan Sontag, Judith Fetterley, Annette Kolodny, and others.

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简介："Though classical tragedy may seem foreign to the contemporary reader, today's most popular television showsand films thrive on the type of violence, passion, madness,and catastrophe first introduced to the stage in fifth-century Athens. Far from being outdated, the themes of conflict in the writings of Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Racine remain as relevant, as ever." "Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world. Each chapter focuses on selected case studies that exemplify the compelling qualities of tragedy. The book reviews the history of tragic performance and the qualities of the classic tragic hero, clarifies the role of plot in defining tragedy, and analyzes the difference between a tragedy, a catastrophe, and a mere unhappy ending. Tragedy: A Short Introduction connects classic tragic dramas to the social, political, and cultural worlds that, produced them - and that they were designed to challenge."--BOOK JACKET

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简介：Featuring the authors' extensive, clear, and faithful translations of original sources, Classical Mythology, Seventh Edition, retells the myths and legends of Greece and Rome in a lucid and engaging style. Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, it incorporates a dynamic combination of poetic narratives and enlightening commentary to make classical myths come alive for students. The discussion covers comparative and interpretative approaches as well as evidence from art and archaeology. The authors also examine the enduring survival of classical mythology in the fields of art, literature, music, dance, and film.Classical Mythology, Seventh Edition, enables students to explore the fascinating nature of Greek and Roman gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines and to appreciate the most significant ancient sources of classical legends and myths. The text is beautifully enhanced by 180 illustrations, in both color and black and white.Classical Mythology, Seventh Edition features:* More extensive translations of works by the ancient authors: Selections by Greek authors include all thirty-three Homeric Hymns; the important passages in Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days; and excerpts from Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Plato, Lucian, Pindar, the Pre-Socratic philosophers, and the Lyric poets. Works by Latin authors including Ovid, Vergil, Statius, Manilius, and Seneca are also provided.* An expanded art program: Sixty-six new illustrations--selected from both the ancient and the modern world--appear throughout the text and are accompanied by substantial and informative captions. Three new maps are also included.* Text boxes--incorporated for the first time--explore a variety of new topics and highlight interpretative approaches.* A selected bibliography is included for each chapter.* More explanatory material is integrated throughout, including a "Glossary of Mythological Words and Phrases in English."* Companion website: www.classicalmythology.org includes chapter-by-chapter summaries, suggested activities, maps, practice test questions, and PowerPoint lecture slides. The website has been revised to enhance the multifaceted subjects treated in the text and to provide links to numerous helpful resources.

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简介：Sophocles (497/6-406 BCE ), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, courage, or intelligence exceeds the human norm-but who also has more than ordinary pride and self-assurance. These qualities combine to lead to a tragic end. Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father). Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus's intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War). Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. The major fragments-ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers -are collected in Volume III of this edition. In prefatory notes Lloyd-Jones provides frameworks for the fragments of known plays.

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简介："This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors. There is a particular emphasis on the sophists, with the inclusion of all of their significant surviving texts, and the works of Alcidamas, Antisthenes and the 'Old Oligarch' are also represented. In addition there are excerpts from early poets such as Homer, Hesiod and Solon, the three great tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the historians Herodotus and Thucydides, medical writers and presocratic philosophers. Besides political theory, areas represented include early anthropology, sociology, ethics and rhetoric, and the wide range of issues discussed includes human nature, the origin of human society, the origin of law, the nature of justice, the forms of good government, the distribution of wealth, and the distribution of power among genders and social classes." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam026/94036323.html.

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简介：Aristophanes, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. This is the fourth and final volume in the new Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays. Frogs was produced in 405 BCE , shortly after the deaths of Sophocles and Euripides. Dionysus, the patron god of theater, journeys to the underworld to retrieve Euripides. There he is recruited to judge a contest between the traditional Aeschylus and the modern Euripides, a contest that yields both sparkling comedy and insight on ancient literary taste. In Assemblywomen Athenian women plot to save Athens from male misgovernance. They transfer power to themselves and institute a new social order in which all inequalities based on wealth, age, and beauty are eliminated-with raucously comical results. The gentle humor and straightforward morality of Wealth made it the most popular of Aristophanes' plays from classical times to the Renaissance. Here the god Wealth is cured of his blindness; his newfound ability to distinguish good people from bad brings playfully portrayed social consequences.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Aristotle is known as a philosopher and as a theorist of poetry, but he was also a composer of songs and verse. This is the first comprehensive study of Aristotle's poetic activity, interpreting his remaining fragments in relation to the earlier poetic tradition and to the literary culture of his time. Its centerpiece is a study of the single complete ode to survive, a song commemorating Hermias of Atarneus, Aristotle's father-in-law and patron in the 340's BCE. This remarkable text is said to have embroiled the philosopher in charges of impiety and so is studied both from a literary perspective and in its political and religious contexts. Aristotle's literary antecedents are studied with an unprecedented fullness that considers the entire range of Greek poetic forms, including poems by Sappho, Pindar, and Sophocles, and prose texts as well. Apart from its interest as a complex and subtle poem, the Song for Hermias is noteworthy as one of the first Greek lyrics for which we have substantial and early evidence for how and where it was composed, performed, and received. It thus affords an opportunity to reconstruct how Greek lyric texts functioned as performance pieces and how they circulated and were preserved. The book argues that Greek lyric poems profit from being read as scripts for performances that both shaped and were shaped by the social occasions in which they were performed. The result is a thorough and wide-ranging study of a complex and fascinating literary document that gives a fuller view of literature in the late classical age.  

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简介：Exciting collection invites youngsters to relive the adventures, calamities, and conquests of fascinating characters created by Homer, Hesiod, Sophocles and other ancient storytellers. Includes imaginative tales of Pandora's box, King Midas and his golden touch, the dreaded Cyclops, Hades and Persephone, Narcissus and Echo, and many more. The Greek myths have intrigued countless generations of readerswith their exciting tales of adventure, calamity and conquest.This entertaining collection-更多>>

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Examines the injuries of military service across time and Western cultures.   Publisher Summary 2 Disabled Veterans in Historyexplores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide sweep of chronology from the Ancient World to the present. The essays address the emergence of "veteran" as a political category with unique privileges and entitlements and of disabled veterans as a special project--and indeed one of the original projects--of the modern welfare state. The introductory essay, "Finding Disabled Veterans in History," offers perhaps the first attempt at synthesizing knowledge about disabled veterans in Western societies. The other essays examine the representation of disabled veterans from Sophocles' Philoctetesto American feature films; the relations of disabled veterans to the state and society in such public policy issues as pensions, medical care, physical rehabilitation, and job retraining; and the disabled veteran's agency and experience in reentering the peacetime world. Other topics include the place of disabled veterans in societies defeated in war; the fate of disabled veterans in societies experiencing frequent changes of political regimes; the emergence of pensions and vocational rehabilitation for disabled veterans; and the abiding problem of alcohol abuse among disabled veterans. The contributors come from a variety of disciplines, including history, physical rehabilitation, Slavic studies, sociology, communication and media, and museum studies. The book will be of interest especially to researchers in the fields of war and society, the welfare state, and disability studies, as well as those in the medical, rehabilitation, and counseling fields. David A. Gerber is Professor of History, State University at Buffalo. He is the author or editor of five previous books.   Publisher Summary 3 Examines the injuries of military service across time and Western cultures  

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Gourgouris considers the capacity of literature to theorize the conditions of the world from which it emerges and to which it addresses itself. The focus is on the process by which literature provides access to knowledge and on what sort of knowledge this might be. Through this analysis, literature is shown to be an emancipatory force of anti-theological and worldly knowledge. The author teaches comparative literature at Columbia University. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 What is the process by which literature might provide us with access to knowledge, and what sort of knowledge might this be? The question is not simply whether literature thinks, but whether literature thinks theoretically—whether it has a capacity, without the external aid of analytical methods that have determined Western philosophy and science since the Enlightenment, to theorize the conditions of the world from which it emerges and to which it addresses itself. Suspicion about literature’s access to knowledge is ancient, at least as old as Plato's notorious expulsion of the poets from the city in the Republic. With full awareness of this classical background and in dialogue with a broad range of twentieth-century thinkers, Gourgouris examines a range of literary texts, from Sophocles’ Antigoneto Don DeLillo’s The Names, as he traces out his argument that literature possesses an intrinsic theoretical capacity to make sense of the nonpropositional.  

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简介：芒聙聵Sophocles, in a play that won only second prize, created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama. In it he played on certain latent terrors that are part of man's nature in all kinds of societies and at all epochs; terrors whose influence may pervade our lives in ways we scarcely guess ...' These words come from the Introduction to Dr Dawe's edition of Oedipus Rex. In an attempt to analyse why this play 芒聙聵Has exercised such a powerful and long-lasting fascination on the human mind' Dr Dawe devotes his Introduction to an examination of the content of the story and to the technique displayed by Sophocles in the unfolding of the plot. The commentary deals authoritatively with problems of language and expression. This is an edition for classical scholars, undergraduates, and students in the upper forms of schools. The Introduction requires no knowledge of Greek and may be read by anyone interested in Greek literature and drama.

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简介：The daughter of Oedipus who risks everything to right an injustice has inspired audiences and readers for millennia. Woodruff (philosophy, U. of Texas-Austin) analyzes each of the major characters, significant events, the form of Greek tragedy, and the life of Sophocles. He also suggests further reading. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 'Sophocles ... created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama ...' With these words Dr Dawe sets out the importance of Oedipus Rex. He investigates why it has for so long fascinated the human mind, devoting his introduction to an examination of the story and to the technique employed by Sophocles to unfold the plot. In this revised edition he also argues for the spurious nature of the play's ending. As with the first edition, the commentary deals authoritatively with problems of language and expression, but is enhanced by reflections on the text developed in the twenty years since the publication of that first edition. Written for classical scholars and students, this is a welcome revised edition of a bestselling text.   Publisher Summary 2 Revised edition of the bestselling commentary on this most important of ancient plays.  

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简介： Drawing on comprehensive analyses of all of Sophocles’ plays, on structuralist anthropology, and on other extensive work on myth and tragedy, Charles Segal examines Sophocles both as a great dramatic poet and as a serious thinker. He shows how Sophoclean tragedy reflects the human condition in its constant and tragic struggle for order and civilized life against the ever-present threat of savagery and chaotic violence, both within society and within the individual. For this edition Segal also provides a new preface discussing recent developments in the study of Sophocles.

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简介："This accessible introduction surveys the land and peopleswho gave us the Labyrinth, the Acropolis, the Iliad and Odyssey, Herodotus and Thucydides, Sappho and Sophocles, Aphrodite and Aristotle, and so much more. Using the full range of resources of art history, archaeology, and philology, this book details the familiar - mythic heroes and heroines, famous philosophers and poets, as well as classical art and architecture - and introduces the less-well-known aspects of ancient Greece, notably the civilizations of the Bronze and Dark Ages and even the earliest form of written Greek - Linear B. In addition, Stephanie Lynn Budin offers a full history of how the study of classical Greece has evolved from ancient times through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the presentday. She covers ongoing questions and new directions in Greek studies, including Minoan religion, the role of women in early Greek cultures, the historical accuracy of Homer and Herodotus, and the role of Greece amongst its non-Greek neighbors. The Ancient Greeks includes a rich collection of illustrations, drawings, maps, and photographs, including detailed renderings of Knossos, theevolution of Greek sculpture and pottery, and even a section on ancient weaponry. The result is a superb companion for both newcomers and long-time Hellenophiles, revealing not only what we know about ancient Greece but how we know it and how these cultures continue to influence us."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介：In Corrupting Youth, Peter Euben explores the affinities between Socratic philosophy and Athenian democratic culture as a way to think about issues of politics and education, both ancient and modern. The book moves skillfully between antiquity and the present, from ancient to contemporary political theory, and from Athenian to American democracy. It draws together important recent work by political theorists with the views of classical scholars in ways that shine new light on significant theoretical debates such as those over discourse ethics, rational choice, and political realism, and on political issues such as school vouchers and education reform. Euben not only argues for the generative capacity of classical texts and Athenian political thought, he demonstrates it by thinking with them to provide a framework for reflecting more deeply about socially divisive issues such as the war over the canon and the politicization of the university. Drawing on Aristophanes' Clouds, Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannos, and Plato's Apology of Socrates, Gorgias, and Protagoras, Euben develops a view of democratic political education. Arguing that Athenian democratic practices constituted a tradition of accountability and self-critique that Socrates expanded into a way of doing philosophy, Euben suggests a necessary reciprocity between political philosophy and radical democracy. By asking whether we can or should take Socrates out of the academy and put him back in front of a wider audience, Euben argues for anchoring contemporary higher education in appreciative yet skeptical encounter with the dramatic figure in Plato's dialogues.

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简介：Oedipus the King ? Antigone ? Electra ? Ajax Trachinian Women ? Philoctetes ? Oedipus at Colonus The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the mythic doom embodied by Oedipus, the uncommonly good man brought down by the gods, Sophocles possessed a tragic vision that, in Matthew Arnold’s phrase, “saw life steadily and saw it whole.” This one-volume paperback edition of Sophocles’ complete works is a revised and modernized version of the famous Jebb translation, which has been called “the most carefully wrought prose version of Sophocles in English.”* *Moses Hadas

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简介：Includes writings by Maya Angelou, Ernest Hemingway, Gary Gildner, Jonathan Safran Foer, Margaret Atwood, Jamaica Kincaid, Amanda Holzer, Monica Ware, Kate Chopin, Stephen Dobyns, William Faulkner, John Updike, Katherine Mansfield, Charles Baxter, Sherman J. Alexie, Tillie Olsen, Richard Wright, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, Tim O'Brien, Shirley Jackson, Alice Walker, Raymond Carver, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eudora Welty, David Michael Kaplan, D.H. Lawrence, Toni Cade Bambara, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Gabriel García Márquez, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joyce Carol Oates, Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Amy Tan, Hisaye Yamamoto, Marianne Moore, Nikki Giovanni, Bob Holman, William Shakespeare, Louis Zukofsky, E.E. Cummings, George Herbert, May Swenson, Greg Williamson, Charles Bernstein, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Reed Altemus and Jim Leftwich, Bob Grumman, Emily Dickinson, Louise Glück, Leonard Adamé, Langston Hughes, Robert Browning, Leslie Marmon Silko, Pat Mora, Janice Mirikitani, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, Thomas Hardy, Adam Zagajewski, William Wordsworth, Robert Herrick, Robert Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ariel Dorfman, W.H. Auden, Dudley Randall, Sipho Sepamla, Walt Whitman, William Stafford, Adrienne Rich, Robert Pinsky, Jim Sagel, Wanda Coleman, Mark Halliday, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edmund Spenser, A.E. Housman, Jane Flanders, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Gary Snyder, Suzanne E. Berger, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Audre Lorde, Robert Burns, N. Scott Momaday, Sylvia Plath, Randall Jarrell, Marge Piercy, John Donne, David Huddle, Anne Bradstreet, Andrew Marvell, Richard Lovelace, Sonai Sanchez, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ogden Nash, Richard Wilbur, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Galway Kinnell, Robert Francis, Lewis Carroll, John Keats, Billy Collins, Mona Van Duyn, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Martin Espada, Matsuo Bashō, Carolyn Kizer, José Juan Tablada, Jack Kerouac, Carl Sandburg, Carolyn Forché, Jim Simmerman, Christina Rossetti, Wole Soyinka, William Meredith, Maxine Kumin, Countee Cullen, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Robert Hayden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Seamus Heaney, Mitsuye Yamada, Dylan Thomas, Joy Harjo, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dorothy Parker, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Robert Lowell, Denise Levertov, Yusef Komunyakaa, Wislawa Szymborska, Matthew Arnold, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Thomas Campion, Hart Crane, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Louise Erdrich, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Edward Hirsch, Aron Keesbury, Ted Kooser, Archibald MacLeish, Christopher Marlowe, Claude McKay, James Merrill, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Marge Piercy, Sylvia Plath, Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Reed, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Phillis Wheatley, Anton Chekhov, Jane Martin, José Rivera, Arlene Hutton, Warren Leight, Susan Glaspell, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Arthur Miller, Sophocles, August Wilson, and Tennessee Williams.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Provides a translation of Aristotle's classic study of the nature of poetry.   Publisher Summary 2 'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy'In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Taking examples from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the Poeticsintroduces into literary criticism such central concepts as mimesis('imitation'), hamartia('error'), and katharsis('purification'). Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication and resolution, recognition and reversals, centring on characters of heroic stature, idealized yet true to life. One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history, the Poeticshas informed serious thinking about drama ever since.Malcolm Heath's lucid English translation makes the Poeticsfully accessible to the modern reader. It is accompanied by an extended introduction, which discusses the key concepts in detail and includes suggestions for further reading.