National Collegiate Honors Council
Date of this Version
2024
Document Type
Article
Citation
Honors in Practice (2024) 20; National Collegiate Honors Council; Guest editor: John Zubizarreta
Abstract
The paper describes a class that introduces Aristotle’s Poetics from the perspective of his scientific, especially biological, treatises: a systematic analysis of what emotions a tragedy is supposed to elicit and how they are resolved by the audience (homoeopathy). Students read 11 ancient and modern plays and view one film, observing whether his theory of the Tragic explains our responses. The final project includes the writing of a tragic story (not a drama) evincing the students’ own understanding of the Tragic based on the readings.
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