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Extraordinarily influential treatise on fine art contains seminal ideas on nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more. Catharsis, tragic flaw, unities of time and place, other concepts.Library JournalThis useful book, an extended study of the Poetics , 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 work. Aristotle emerges as holding a deeply cognitivist view of poetry and as rejecting the attempt to judge art primarily by external (e.g., moral, political) criteria; his call for the relative autonomy of art, however, neither commits him to an aestheticist view nor prevents him from attributing to art a significant moral dimension. Halliwell's attempts to keep Plato in close view and to keep the Poetics within the context of Aristotle's philosophy as a whole are illuminating. For academic collections. Richard Hogan, Philosophy Dept., Southeastern Massachusetts Univ., N. Dartmouth
Introduction to 1998 editionAbbreviationsIThe Setting of the Poetics1IIAristotle's Aesthetics 1: Art and its Pleasure42IIIAristotle's Aesthetics 2: Craft, Nature and Unity in Art82IVMimesis109VAction and Character138VITragedy and the Emotions168VIIFallibility & Misfortune: The Secularisation of the Tragic202VIIIThe Chorus of Tragedy238IXEpic, Comedy and Other Genres253XInfluence & Status: the Nachleben of the Poetics286App. 1The Date of the Poetics324App. 2The Poetics and Plato331App. 3Drama in the Theatre: Aristotle on Spectacle (opsis)337App. 4Aristotle on Language (lexis)344App. 5Interpretations of katharsis350Bibliography357Index365
