Essays on Aristotle's Poetics

Name: Essays on Aristotle's Poetics
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ISBN: 9780691014982

ISBN-10: 0691014981

ISBN-13: 9780691014982

Edition: 1992

Authors: Amï¿½lie Oksenberg Rorty, Amï¿½lie Oksenberg Rorty

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Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the Poetics to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics. The essays address such topics as catharsis, pity and fear, pleasure, character and the unity of action, and the modality of dramatic action. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Elizabeth Belfiore, Rdiger Bittner, Mary Whitlock Blundell, Wayne Booth, Dorothea Frede, Cynthia Freeland, Leon Golden, Stephen Halliwell, Richard Janko, Aryeh…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/30/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.09" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.628



List of Contributors


Acknowledgments


The Psychology of Aristotelian Tragedy


Aristotle on History and Poetry


Myth and Tragedy


Acting: Drama as the Mimesis of Praxis


Aristotle on Mimesis


One Action


Plot Imitates Action: Aesthetic Evaluation and Moral Realism in Aristotle's Poetics


Outside the Drama: The Limits of Tragedy in Aristotle's Poetics


Ethos and Dianoia Reconsidered


Hamartia and Virtue


Necessity, Chance, and "What Happens for the Most Part" in Aristotle's Poetics


Aristotle's Favorite Tragedies


Pleasure, Understanding, and Emotion in Aristotle's Poetics


Tragedy and Self-sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on Fear and Pity


Pity and Fear in the Rhetoric and the Poetics


Katharsis


From Catharsis to the Aristotelian Mean


Aristotle and Iphigenia


Aristotle on the Pleasure of Comedy


The Poetics for a Practical Critic


Epilogue: The Poetics and its Interpreters


Selected Bibliography