Aristotle on Poetics

Name: Aristotle on Poetics
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ISBN: 9781587310263

ISBN-10: 1587310260

ISBN-13: 9781587310263

Edition: 2002

Authors: Seth Benardete, Michael Davis, Michael Davis, Michael Davis

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Aristotle's much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. Seth Benardete and Michael Davis have translated it anew with a view to rendering Aristotle's text into English as precisely as possible. A literal translation has long been needed, for in order to excavate the argument of On Poetics one has to attend not simply to what is said on the surface but also to the various puzzles, questions, and peculiarities that emerge only on the level of how Aristotle says what he says and thereby leads one to revise and deepen one's initial understanding of the intent of the argument. As On Poetics is about how tragedy ought…

Book details

List price: $11.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Saint Augustine's Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English