Author : Walter Watson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,14 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 : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 16,19 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 : Richard Janko
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520053038
Author : Averroës
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 22,40 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 : Lane Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN :
Author : Pierre Destrée
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190460547
"Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. Further, they were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, often borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. The volume is organized around three themes that were important for ancient philosophers: the psychology of laughter, the ethical and social norms governing laughter and humor. and the philosophical uses of humor and comedic technique"--
Author : Jonathan Goossen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351658689
Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy relates new understandings of Aristotle’s dramatic theory to the comedy of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Typically, scholars of Renaissance drama have treated Aristotle’s theory only as a possible historical influence on Jonson’s and Shakespeare’s drama, focusing primarily on their tragedies. Yet recent classical scholarship has undone important misconceptions about Aristotle’s Poetics held by early modern commentators and fleshed out the theory of comedy latent within it. By first synthesizing these developments and then treating them as an interpretive theory, rather than simply an historical influence, this book demonstrates a remarkable consonance between Aristotelian principles of plot and its emotional effect, on the one hand, and the comedy of Shakespeare and Jonson, on the other. In doing so, it also reveals surprising similarities between these seemingly divergent dramatists.
Author : Samuel Henry Butcher
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN :
Author : Dana Ferrin Sutton
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Comedy criticism has lacked a theoretical underpinning both to facilitate the work of interpretation and to generate a satisfactory mode of discourse. In The Catharsis of Comedy, Dana F. Sutton takes the initial steps toward the creation of a comprehensive theory that embraces a number of theoretical constructs and analytical techniques. Sutton begins with an examination of the ideas of such thinkers as Aristotle, Herbert Spencer, Sigmund Freud, and Krishna Menon. Once the workings of comic catharsis are described, Sutton relates his new theory to other theories of comedy and humor, including the ideas of festival comedy set forth by Barber and Bakhtin, Lionel Abel's metatheater, and Konrad Lorenz's suggestion that humor originated in primate expressions of hostility. The result is a theory of enormous potential for the analysis of specific comedies, coupled with the creation of a vocabulary with which analytical discoveries can be discussed.
