Aristotle on the Function of Tragic Poetry
Author: Gregory Michael Sifakis
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9789605241322
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The Poetics of Aristotle
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-03-07
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9781544217574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama - comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play - as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes: 1. Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. 2. Difference of goodness in the characters. 3. Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. In examining its "first principles," Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2) genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions."
The Poetics of Aristotle
Author: Aristotle
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art
Author: Samuel Henry Butcher
Publisher:
Published: 1923
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOntology and the Art of Tragedy
Author: Martha Husain
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0791489795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOntology and the Art of Tragedy is a sustained reflection on the principles and criteria from which to guide one's approach to Aristotle's Poetics. Its scope is twofold: historical and systematic. In its historical aspect it develops an approach to Aristotle's Poetics, which brings his distinctive philosophy of being to bear on the reception of this text. In its systematic aspect it relates Aristotle's theory of art to the perennial desiderata of any theory of art, and particularly to Kandinsky's.
Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics
Author: Averroës
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle's Poetics has held the attention of scholars and authors through the ages, and Averroes has long been known as "the commentator" on Aristotle. His Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics is important because of its striking content. Here, an author steeped in Aristotle's thought and highly familiar with an entirely different poetical tradition shows in careful detail what is commendable about Greek poetics and commendable as well as blameworthy about Arabic poetics.
The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context
Author: Pierre Destrée
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-18
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1000053482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which poetic concepts could relate to Aristotelian philosophy. In the past, contextualization has most commonly been used by scholars in order to try to solve the meaning of difficult concepts in the Poetics (such as catharsis, mimesis, or tragic pleasure). In this volume, rather than looking to explain a specific concept, the contributors observe the concatenation of Aristotelian ideas in various treatises in order to explore some aesthetic, moral and political implications of the philosopher’s views of tragedy, comedy and related genres. Questions addressed include: Does Aristotle see his interest in drama as part of his larger research on human natures? What are the implications of tragic plots dealing with close family members for the polis? What should be the role of drama and music in the education of citizens? How does dramatic poetry relate to other arts and what are the ethical ramifications of the connections? How specific are certain emotions to literary genres and how do those connect to Aristotle’s extended account of pathe? Finally, how do internal elements of composition and language in poetry relate to other domains of Aristotelian thought? The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context offers a fascinating new insight to the Poetics, and will be of use to anyone working on the Poetics, or Aristotelian philosophy more broadly.
Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato
Author: Rana Saadi Liebert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-07
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1316885615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequent emergence as a philosophical problem in Plato's Republic. Socrates' claim that tragic poetry satisfies our 'hunger for tears' hearkens back to archaic conceptions of both poetry and mourning that suggest a common source of pleasure in the human appetite for heightened forms of emotional distress. By unearthing a psychosomatic model of aesthetic engagement implicit in archaic poetry and philosophically elaborated by Plato, this volume not only sheds new light on the Republic's notorious indictment of poetry, but also identifies rationally and ethically disinterested sources of value in our pursuit of aesthetic states. In doing so the book resolves an intractable paradox in aesthetic theory and human psychology: the appeal of painful emotions.
Exploring Art for Perspective Transformation
Author: Alexis Kokkos
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-05-12
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9004455345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring Art for Perspective Transformation discusses fundamental theories regarding the emancipatory learning potential involved in artworks. It also provides teachers, as well as adult and museum educators a method of exploring artworks with a view to challenge learners’ assumptions.
Interpreting Greek Tragedy
Author: Charles Segal
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1501746715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy is and what it means for modern-day readers. Taken together, the essays reflect profound changes in the study of Greek tragedy in the United States during this period-in particular, the increasing emphasis on myth, psychoanalytic interpretation, structuralism, and semiotics.
