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"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
- Charles de Montesquieu
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 Format: Paperback, 48 pages
Publisher: The Penguin Group
ISBN: 0140446362
Release Date: Jan 9, 1999
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This book "treats such subjects as Aristotle's general aesthetic views; mimesis; pity, fear, and katharsis; recognition, reversal, and hamartia; tragic misfortune; the nontragic genres; and the historical influence of {the Poetics}." (Libr J) Bibliography. Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
This volume brings together the three most original and influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Artistotle's "Poetics" contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen Halliwell makes this seminal work newly accessible with a translation that is both accurate and readable. His authoritative introduction traces the work's debt to earlier theorists (especially Plato), its distinctive argument, and the reasons behind its enduring relevance. The essay "On the Sublime," usually attributed to "Longinus" (identity uncertain), was probably composed in the first century A.D.; its subject is the appreciation of greatness ("the sublime") in writing, with analysis of illustrative passages ranging from Homer and Sappho to Plato and Genesis. In this edition, Donald Russell has revised and newly annotated the text and translation by W. Hamilton Fyfe and provides a new introduction. The treatise "On Style," ascribed to an (again unidentifiable) Demetrius, was perhaps composed during the second century B.C. It seems to reflect the theoretical energy of Hellenistic rhetorical works now lost, and is notable particularly for its theory and analysis of four distinct styles. Doreen Innes' fresh rendering of the work is based on the earlier Loeb translation by W. Rhys Roberts. Her new introduction and notes represent the latest scholarship.
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-- Nizar Hermes, the University of Northern Iowa, May 2, 2001
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
"Halliwell's Aristotle's Poetics is, quite simply, the best book available on that difficult work" Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
| |  | | | | Introduction to 1998 edition | | | Abbreviations | | | I | The Setting of the Poetics | 1 | | II | Aristotle's Aesthetics 1: Art and its Pleasure | 42 | | III | Aristotle's Aesthetics 2: Craft, Nature and Unity in Art | 82 | | IV | Mimesis | 109 | | V | Action and Character | 138 | | VI | Tragedy and the Emotions | 168 | | VII | Fallibility & Misfortune: The Secularisation of the Tragic | 202 | | VIII | The Chorus of Tragedy | 238 | | IX | Epic, Comedy and Other Genres | 253 | | X | Influence & Status: the Nachleben of the Poetics | 286 | | App. 1 | The Date of the Poetics | 324 | | App. 2 | The Poetics and Plato | 331 | | App. 3 | Drama in the Theatre: Aristotle on Spectacle (opsis) | 337 | | App. 4 | Aristotle on Language (lexis) | 344 | | App. 5 | Interpretations of katharsis | 350 | | Bibliography | 357 | | Index | 365 |
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