Ulteriori informazioni
Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the Poetics to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics. The essays address such topics as catharsis, pity and fear, pleasure, character and the unity of action, and the modality of dramatic action. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Elizabeth Belfiore, Rdiger Bittner, Mary Whitlock Blundell, Wayne Booth, Dorothea Frede, Cynthia Freeland, Leon Golden, Stephen Halliwell, Richard Janko, Aryeh Kosman, Jonathan Lear, Alexander Nehamas, Martha C. Nussbaum, Deborah Roberts, G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, Nancy Sherman, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Stephen A. White, and Paul Woodruff.
Sommario
| List of Contributors | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| The Psychology of Aristotelian Tragedy | 1 |
| Aristotle on History and Poetry | 23 |
| Myth and Tragedy | 33 |
| Acting: Drama as the Mimesis of Praxis | 51 |
| Aristotle on Mimesis | 73 |
| One Action | 97 |
| Plot Imitates Action: Aesthetic Evaluation and Moral Realism in Aristotle's Poetics | 111 |
| Outside the Drama: The Limits of Tragedy in Aristotle's Poetics | 133 |
| Ethos and Dianoia Reconsidered | 155 |
| Hamartia and Virtue | 177 |
| Necessity, Chance, and "What Happens for the Most Part" in Aristotle's Poetics | 197 |
| Aristotle's Favorite Tragedies | 221 |
| Pleasure, Understanding, and Emotion in Aristotle's Poetics | 241 |
| Tragedy and Self-sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on Fear and Pity | 261 |
| Pity and Fear in the Rhetoric and the Poetics | 291 |
| Katharsis | 315 |
| From Catharsis to the Aristotelian Mean | 341 |
| Aristotle and Iphigenia | 359 |
| Aristotle on the Pleasure of Comedy | 379 |
| The Poetics for a Practical Critic | 387 |
| Epilogue: The Poetics and its Interpreters | 409 |
| Selected Bibliography | 425 |
Info autore
Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
Riassunto
Intended to deepening our understanding of the 'Poetics', this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. It includes twenty-one essays that explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the 'Poetics' to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics.
