Epic Performed: The Poetic Nature of TV Series

Rivista di Estetica 83:39-56 (2023)
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In this paper I aim to test a general interpretation of television series as narrative epics, in the sense defined by Aristotle’s Poetics and canonised by Renaissance literary theorists.

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Aristotle's Poetics: The Argument.Gerald Frank Else - 1963 - Harvard University Press.
The Television Medium.Ted Nannicelli - 2019 - In Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures. Springer. pp. 949-970.
The Auteur Theory in the Age of the Mini-Series.Douglas Lackey - 2019 - In Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures. Springer. pp. 543-549.
TV and Film: A Philosophical Perspective.Noël Carroll - 2001 - The Journal of Aesthetic Education 35 (1):15.

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