Aristoteles How to tell a story

an ancient guide to the art of storytelling for writers and readers

"Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter of such hits as The Social Network and The West Wing, recently urged aspiring writers to become students and evangelists for Aristotle's Poetics. How is it that this small and rather obscure treatise by an ancient philosopher better known for metaphysics and ethics has become over the centuries the standard and best handbook for writing drama, novels, short stories, and now screenplays for film and television? How can a book that is admittedly...

Engels | Oudgrieks (tot 1453) | 244 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey | 2022

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