Aristotle's Poetics

Name: Aristotle's Poetics
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ISBN: 9780715628584

ISBN-10: 0715628585

ISBN-13: 9780715628584

Edition: 2nd 1998

Authors: Stephen Halliwell

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In this sustained interpretation Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that the Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, contains a coherent statement of mimetic art in general. He assesses this theory against the background of earlier Greek views on poetry and art, particularly Plato's; and he goes further than many previous authors in setting Aristotle's ideas in the wider context of his philosophical system. The core of the book is an appraisal of Aristotle's view of tragic drama, in which Professor Halliwell contends that at the heart of the Poetics lies a philosophical urge to work out a secularised understanding of Greek tragedy.

Book details

Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 3/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction to 1988 edition Abbreviations



The Setting of thePoetics



Aristotle's Aesthetics



Art and its Pleasure



Aristotle's Aesthetics



Craft, Nature and Unity in Art



Mimesis



Action and Character



Tragedy and the Emotions



Fallibility & Misfortune: The Securlarisation of the Tragic



The Chorus of Tragedy



Epic, Comedy and Other Genres



Influence & Status: theNachlebenof thePoetics



The Date of thePoetics



ThePoeticsand Plato



Drama in the Theatre: Aristotle on Spectacle (opsis)



Aristotle on Language (lexis)



Interpretations ofkatharsis


Bibliography


Index