Essays on Aristotle's Poetics / edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty.

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[1992], ©1992
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992], ©1992.

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xii, 435 pages ; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographic references (p. 425-435)

Contents

The psychology of Aristotelian tragedy / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- Aristotle on history and poetry (Poetics, 9, 1451a36-b11) / G.E.M. de Ste. Croix -- Myth and tragedy / Jean-Pierre Vernant -- Acting : Drama as the Mimēsis of Praxis / Aryeh Kosman -- Aristotle on Mimēsis / Paul Woodruff -- One action / Rüdiger Bittner -- Plot imitates action : aesthetic evaluation and moral realism in Aristotle's Poetics / Cynthia A. Freeland -- Outside the drama : the limits of tragedy in Aristotle's Poetics / Deborah H. Roberts -- Ēthos and Dianoia reconsidered / Mary Whitlock Blundell -- Hamartia and virtue / Nancy Sherman -- Necessity, chance, and "what happens for the most part" in Aristotle's Poetics / Dorothea Frede -- Aristotle's favorite tragedies / Stephen W. White
Pleasure, understanding, and emotion in Aristotle's Poetics / Stephen Halliwell -- Tragedy and self-sufficiency : Plato and Aristotle on fear and pity / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Pity and fear in the Rhetoric and the Poetics / Alexander Nehamas -- Katharsis / Jonathan Lear -- From catharsis to the Aristotelian mean / Richard Janko -- Aristotle and Iphigenia / Elizabeth Belfiore -- Aristotle on the pleasure of comedy / Leon Golden -- The Poetics for a practical critic / Wayne Booth -- Epilogue : the Poetics and its interpreters / Stephen Halliwell.

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  • 0691068720
  • 0691014981