Authors: Aristotle
ISBN-13: 9781161449044, ISBN-10: 1161449043
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company
Date Published: May 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Extraordinarily influential treatise on fine art contains seminal ideas on nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more. Catharsis, tragic flaw, unities of time and place, other concepts.
This useful book, an extended study of the Poetics , treats such subjects as Aristotle's general aesthetic views; mimesis; pity, fear, and katharsis; recognition, reversal, and hamartia; tragic misfortune; the nontragic genres; and the historical influence of the work. Aristotle emerges as holding a deeply cognitivist view of poetry and as rejecting the attempt to judge art primarily by external (e.g., moral, political) criteria; his call for the relative autonomy of art, however, neither commits him to an aestheticist view nor prevents him from attributing to art a significant moral dimension. Halliwell's attempts to keep Plato in close view and to keep the Poetics within the context of Aristotle's philosophy as a whole are illuminating. For academic collections. Richard Hogan, Philosophy Dept., Southeastern Massachusetts Univ., N. Dartmouth
Introduction to 1998 edition | ||
Abbreviations | ||
I | The Setting of the Poetics | 1 |
II | Aristotle's Aesthetics 1: Art and its Pleasure | 42 |
III | Aristotle's Aesthetics 2: Craft, Nature and Unity in Art | 82 |
IV | Mimesis | 109 |
V | Action and Character | 138 |
VI | Tragedy and the Emotions | 168 |
VII | Fallibility & Misfortune: The Secularisation of the Tragic | 202 |
VIII | The Chorus of Tragedy | 238 |
IX | Epic, Comedy and Other Genres | 253 |
X | Influence & Status: the Nachleben of the Poetics | 286 |
App. 1 | The Date of the Poetics | 324 |
App. 2 | The Poetics and Plato | 331 |
App. 3 | Drama in the Theatre: Aristotle on Spectacle (opsis) | 337 |
App. 4 | Aristotle on Language (lexis) | 344 |
App. 5 | Interpretations of katharsis | 350 |
Bibliography | 357 | |
Index | 365 |