Poetics (Aristotle)
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Aristotle's Poetics aims to give an account of literature. Aristotle does this by attempting to explain poetry through first principles, and by classifying poetry into its different genres and component parts. The Poetics -- both the extant first book and the lost second book -- figure prominently in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose.
First account of sensationalism
- "Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies." --Aristotle via the Poetics.
See: Sensationalism
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