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Poetics—one of Aristotle’s greatest works—is the philosopher’s grand and insightful essay on art and its purposes. Why must a story have a beginning, a middle, and an end? How can we define tragedy, and what is the artistic purpose of it? Is there one “ideal” kind of drama? What is the nature of poetry? How consciously should poets and playwrights construct their work?
All these questions, and others, are discussed and debated in this, perhaps the single most significant text in Western critical tradition. Writers, actors, students of literature, and armchair philosophers will find it a challenging—and rewarding—read.
| 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 |
Anonymous
Posted May 2, 2001
Aristotle's Poetics is hailed as the first systematic critical theory in the world. For centuries and centuries, it has inspired writers, critics, and philosophers alike. Aristotle, the father of critics, as many would exalt him, sets the rules for many key literary genres such as Tragedy, Comedy, and Epic. Through comparing and contrasting these classical genres, Aristotle convincingly argues for the highness and greatness of tragedy, as the most mimetic literary genre. Thanks to Aristotle, we are introduced to such eternally important critical terms such as mimesis(imitation), muthos(plot), anagnorisis(discovery), peripeteia(reversal),hamartia(misjudgment), catharsis(purgation). In other words, Aristotle's Poetics is the bible for critics, playwrights, and fans of tragic literature.
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The writings of Greek philosopher ARISTOTLE (384BC–322BC)—student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great—are among the most influential on Western thought, and indeed upon Western civilization itself. From theology and logic to politics and even biology, there is no area of human knowledge that has not been touched by his thinking.Poetics—one of Aristotle’s greatest works—is the philosopher’s grand and insightful essay on art and its purposes. Why must a story have a beginning, a middle, and an end? How can we define tragedy, and what is the artistic purpose of it? Is there one “ideal” kind of drama? What is the nature of poetry? How consciously ...