Aristotle on Comedy - Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II

In 1839, the Tractatus Coislinianus , a summarised treatise on comedy, was published from a tenth-century manuscript. Its discoverer suggested that it derived from the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics", which inaugurated the systematic study of comedy, but it was soon condemned as an ignorant compilation verging on forgery, and thus matters stood until the first publication of Aristotle on Comedy in 1984. Richard Janko's edition of the text is accompanied by a facing translation, interpretive essays, reconstruction and commentary. This edition contains a new preface and additional bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Janko, Janko Richard
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2002
• EAN: 9780715631690
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-3169-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 214 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form