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The lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics / Walter Watson.

PN1040.A753 W38 2012

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Watson, Walter, 1925-
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Aristotle. Poetics.; Aristotle.; Poetry--History and criticism.; Poetry.
Physical Description:: xii, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Contents:: The lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics; Aims of the present book; Method to be followed; Prospective readers; Groundwork; Aristotle's arts and sciences; The organon; Preface to the theoretical sciences; Mathematics; The physical sciences; The biological sciences; First philosophy; The order of the arts and sciences; The practical sciences; The productive sciences: poetics; Rhetoric; Scientific rationality as a guiding idea; Causes; The symbolon argument; Causes in the poetics; Poetic imitation; The analysis of poetic imitation; The scope of poetic imitation; The evolution of poetic imitation; Expectations of Poetics II; The epitome of Poetics II; Comparison of expectations with the epitome; The kinds of poetry; The autonomy of poetry; Internal and external ends; The Aristotelian tradition; Historical, educational, and imitative poetry; Historical poetry; Historical poetry and history; Historical poetry and imitative poetry; Historical poetry and rhetoric; Educational poetry; Poetry and philosophy; Poetry and education; Imitative poetry; The end of tragedy; The end of tragedy as catharsis; The fearful emotions; The removal of emotions by emotions; The aim of tragedy: symmetry; The mother of tragedy: pain; Poetry and the practical sciences; Poetic and therapeutic catharsis; Is catharsis in the poem or in the audience?; Is catharsis educative?; The practical ends of poetry; Comedy; The definition of comedy; The mother of comedy: laughter; The laughable; The definition of the laughable; Accounts of the laughable; The causes of the laughable; Laughter from the diction; Laughter from the incidents; Cicero's account of laughter; The science of the laughable; The embodiment of the laughable in comedy; The matter and parts of comedy; Old, new, and middle comedy.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:: 9780226875088; 0226875083
OCLC:: 747099844

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