![]() ![]() Whichever side of the debate you end up on, it is important when studying the Poetics to take time to decode its dense text. ![]() Other critics have argued against such views and reclaimed the Poetics for their own times often these critics emphasize the importance of reading the Poetics in its historical context - it was, after all, written an awfully long time ago - and stress that despite this historical barrier the insights contained in the work still hold true. One contemporary critic argues that Aristotle "reduces drama to its language," and the "language itself to its least poetic element, the story, and then encourages insensitive readers.to subject stories to crudely moralistic readings that reduce tragedies to the childish proportions of Aesop-fables" (Sachs 1). Some critics object to Aristotle's theory of poetics and regret that the work has held such sway in the history of Western literature. Over the years the Poetics has been both praised and disparaged. Despite its vague beginning, the Poetics has been a central document in the study of aesthetics and literature for centuries, proving especially influential during the Renaissance it continues to have relevance in scholarly circles today. Though the precise origins of Aristotle's Poetics are not known, researchers believe that the work was composed around 330 BCE and was preserved primarily through Aristotle's students' notes. ![]()
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