Poetics

This Norton Critical Edition also includes: · A preface, full introduction, and appendix (“On Tragic and Epic Performance”) by Michelle Zerba and David Gorman. · "Ancient Sources,” giving readers the opportunity to consider the epic, dramatic, philosophical, and rhetorical texts that influenced the Poetics, including those by Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Gorgias, and Plato, among others. · Several modern interpretations—by Reuben A. Brower, Humphry House, Gérard Genette, Elizabeth Belfiore, and Terence Cave, among others—that speak to the enduring relevance of the Poetics. · An Annotated Bibliography.