Study on Aristotle’s Dramatic Epic View and Its Influence

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10.2991/assehr.k.200907.044How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Aristotle, epic view, dramatization, organic integrity

Abstract

While the dramatic theories of Aristotle’s “Poetics” have been researched deeply and systematically in the academic circle, the study of his epic theory is obviously insufficient. After reviewing the academic background of Greece at that time and combing and comparing the critical theories of epic in the West, this paper mainly studies Aristotle’s view of epic. Aristotle believes that the plot structure, types and elements of epic should be the same as drama, and the plot structure should be dramatized in particular. On this basis, the author holds that Aristotle’s view of epic is a dramatic epic view, which has directly influenced the study and evaluation of epic for more than 20 centuries. “Dramatic epic view” is an innovative term proposed in this paper.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Guode Li
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/07
TI  - Study on Aristotle’s Dramatic Epic View and Its Influence
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 246
EP  - 251
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200907.044
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200907.044
ID  - Li2020
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