Basic Concepts of Poetics
Author : Emil Staiger
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271042656
Author : Emil Staiger
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271042656
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 23,39 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 : 34,28 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 : Martha Husain
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 22,92 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.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Henry Butcher
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN :
Author : Averroës
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 13,14 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 : Stephen Halliwell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 1998-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226313948
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 this theory against the background of earlier Greek views on poetry and art, particularly Plato's, Halliwell goes further than any previous author in setting Aristotle's ideas in the wider context of his philosophical system. The core of the book is a fresh appraisal of Aristotle's view of tragic drama, in which Halliwell contends that at the heart of the Poetics lies a philosophical urge to instill a secularized understanding of Greek tragedy. "Essential reading not only for all serious students of the Poetics . . . but also for those—the great majority—who have prudently fought shy of it altogether."—B. R. Rees, Classical Review "A splendid work of scholarship and analysis . . . a brilliant interpretation."—Alexander Nehamas, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1585104612
A complete translation of Aristotle's classic that is both faithful and readable, along with an introduction that provides the modern reader with a means of understanding this seminal work and its impact on our culture. In this volume, Joe Sachs (translator of Aristotle's Physics, Metaphysics, and the Nicomachean Ethics )also supplements his excellent translation with well-chosen notes and glossary of important terms. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Aristotle’s immediate audience.
Author : Peter Stockwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134513275
Cognitive poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This book is the first introductory text to this growing field. In Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction, the reader is encouraged to re-evaluate the categories used to understand literary reading and analysis. Covering a wide range of literary genres and historical periods, the book encompasses both American and European approaches. Each chapter explores a different cognitive-poetic framework and relates it to a literary text. Including a range of activities, discussion points, suggestions for further reading and a glossarial index, the book is both interactive and highly accessible. Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction is essential reading for students on stylistics and literary-linguistic courses, and will be of interest to all those involved in literary studies, critical theory and linguistics.