Aristotle's Poetics: the Argument
โ Scribed by Gerald Frank Else
- Publisher
- Harvard U.P.
- Year
- 1957
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 708
- Category
- Library
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This text combines a complete translation of Aristotle's "poetics" with a running commentary, printed on facing pages, to keep the reader in continuous contact with the linguistic and critical subtleties of the original while highlighting crucial issues for students of literature and literary theory
Acknowledgments; George Whalley on the Poetics: A Preface; On Translating Aristotle's Poetics; A Note on the Text of the Translation; Topical Summary; Translation-and-Commentary; Excursus Notes; Appendices; A: The Sections of a Tragedy; B: Wording, Lexis, and Principles of Style; C: Critical Problem
In this sustained interpretation, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, contains a coherent statement of mimetic art in general. He assesses this theory against a background of earlier Greek views on poetry and art, particularly Platoโs; and he goes further than m
In this, the fullest, sustained interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics available in English, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that the Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art, and it hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general. Assessing