Author : Malcolm Heath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0521198798
Reveals how ancient philosophers approached questions about the nature of poetry, its ethical and social impact and access to truth.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781544217574
In 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."
Author : Walter Watson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226875083
Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. The author offers a fresh interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics".
Author : Zacharoula A. Petraki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110260972
A close analysis of the Republic's diverse literary styles shows how the peculiarities of verbal texture in Platonic discourse can be explained by Plato's remolding of tropes and techniques from poetry and the Presocratics. This book argues that Plato smuggles poetic language into the Republic's prose in order to characterize the deceitful coloration and polymorphy that accompanies the world of Becoming as opposed to the Real. Plato's distinctive discourse thus can transmit, even to those figures focused on the visual within his Republic, the shiftiness of the base and the unjust.
Author : Averroës
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Aristotle'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.
Author : Angela Curran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317677056
Aristotle’s Poetics is the first philosophical account of an art form and the foundational text in aesthetics. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Poetics is an accessible guide to this often dense and cryptic work. Angela Curran introduces and assesses: Aristotle’s life and the background to the Poetics the ideas and text of the Poetics the continuing importance of Aristotle’s work to philosophy today.
Author : Karsten Friis Johansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134798253
Translated into English for the first time, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought.
Author : Ranjan Ghosh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231547242
Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical meaning making, challenging us to rethink how philosophy has been changed through its encounters with poetry. In wide-ranging reflections on thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Irigaray, Badiou, Kristeva, and Agamben, among others, distinguished contributors consider how different philosophers encountered the force and intensity of poetry and the negotiations that took place as they sought resolutions of the quarrel. Instead of a clash between competing worldviews, they figured the relationship between philosophy and poetry as one of productive mutuality, leading toward new modes of thinking and understanding. Spanning a range of issues with nuance and rigor, this compelling and comprehensive book opens new possibilities for philosophical poetry and the poetics of philosophy.
Author : Professor of Greek School of Classics Malcolm Heath
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781139624534
Reveals how ancient philosophers approached questions about the nature of poetry, its ethical and social impact and access to truth.
Author : Martha Husain
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791489795
Ontology 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.
