Tag: aesthetic distance

  • Arnold, Matthew

    Assigned: Arnold, Matthew. “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (684-703); from Culture and Anarchy, from Chapter 1. “Sweetness and Light” (703-10). Also read the editors’ introduction (681-84). “The...

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  • Aristotle

    Assigned: Aristotle. Poetics (99-127); from Rhetoric, Books I, II, and III(127-31). Also read the editors’ introduction (95-99). Poetics (circa 330 B.C.E.) 1. On 99 (“The art of poetry, both…”), Aristotle...

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