| Aristotle - 1898 - 144 pages
...imitative arts, the imitation is one, when the object imitated is one, so the plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole,...removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference, is not an organic part of the whole.... | |
| Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1898 - 218 pages
...imitative arts, the imitation is one, when the object imitated is one, so the plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole,...removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed." 1 " Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse of characters of a higher... | |
| Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1898 - 208 pages
...that cannot be applied by rule of thumb. Aristotle, indeed, speaks, in his cool, definite way, of " the structural union of the parts being such that...displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed."1 Such a test can well be applied to the dramas of Sophocles: — try to "cut" the Antigone... | |
| Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1898 - 208 pages
...that cannot be applied by rule of thumb. Aristotle, indeed, speaks, in his cool, definite way, of " the structural union of the parts being such that...displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed."1 Such a test can well be applied to the dramas of Sophocles : — try to " cut " the Antigone... | |
| Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1902 - 154 pages
...maxims tive arts, the imitation is one, when the object imitated is one, so the plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole,...removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed.' 1 Ibid. vi. i : ' The most beautiful colors, laid on confusedly, will not give as much pleasure as... | |
| Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1902 - 182 pages
...imitation is one, when the object imitated is one. so the plot, being an imitation of an action, mast imitate one action 'and that a whole, the structural...removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed.' 1 Ibid. vi. 5 : ' The most beautiful colors, laid on confusedly, will not give as much pleasure as... | |
| Clarence Valentine Boyer - 1914 - 288 pages
...many actions of one man out of which we cannot make one action. . . . The plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole,...removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference, is not an organic part of the whole."... | |
| Clarence Valentine Boyer - 1914 - 294 pages
...many actions of one man out of which we cannot make one action. . . . The plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole,...removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference, is not an organic part of the whole."... | |
| Arthur Woollgar Verrall - 1914 - 322 pages
...means by ' Unity of Action ' would take us too far afield ; the essential thing is that the plot ' must imitate one action and that a whole, the structural...removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed' (Aristotle's Poetics, Ch. v1n). In Dryden's play, the sequence of scenes is not perhaps necessary,... | |
| Gilbert Norwood - 1920 - 418 pages
...will admit of a change from bad fortune to good, or from good fortune to bad."1 (6) " The plot . . . must imitate one action and that a whole, the structural union of the parts being such that if anyone of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed." 8 A tragedy must... | |
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