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▤ Reading group: Aristotle’s Poetics as a craft manual, with the Nāṭyaśāstra beside it

I've always read the Poetics as "Aristotle's theory of art". Recently I came across the argument that this is a mistranslation of the whole enterprise: the Greek technē covered medicine, carpentry, navigation and poetry alike, and the Poetics is less aesthetics than…