The lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics

The lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics /

"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. In the Poetics, Aristotle writes that he will speak of comedy, but there is no further m...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Watson, Walter, 1925-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012
Subjects:
Aristotle. > Poetics.
Poetry > History and criticism.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics
  • Aims of the present book
  • Method to be followed
  • Prospective readers
  • Groundwork
  • Aristotle's arts and sciences
  • The organon
  • Preface to the theoretical sciences
  • Mathematics
  • The physical sciences
  • The biological sciences
  • First philosophy
  • The order of the arts and sciences
  • The practical sciences
  • The productive sciences : poetics
  • Rhetoric
  • Scientific rationality as a guiding idea
  • Causes
  • The symbolon argument
  • Causes in the poetics
  • Poetic imitation
  • The analysis of poetic imitation
  • The scope of poetic imitation
  • The evolution of poetic imitation
  • Expectations of Poetics II
  • The epitome of Poetics II
  • Comparison of expectations with the epitome
  • The kinds of poetry
  • The autonomy of poetry
  • Internal and external ends
  • The Aristotelian tradition
  • Historical, educational, and imitative poetry
  • Historical poetry
  • Historical poetry and history
  • Historical poetry and imitative poetry
  • Historical poetry and rhetoric
  • Educational poetry
  • Poetry and philosophy
  • Poetry and education
  • Imitative poetry
  • The end of tragedy
  • The end of tragedy as catharsis
  • The fearful emotions
  • The removal of emotions by emotions
  • The aim of tragedy : symmetry
  • The mother of tragedy : pain
  • Poetry and the practical sciences
  • Poetic and therapeutic catharsis
  • Is catharsis in the poem or in the audience?
  • Is catharsis educative?
  • The practical ends of poetry
  • Comedy
  • The definition of comedy
  • The mother of comedy : laughter
  • The laughable
  • The definition of the laughable
  • Accounts of the laughable
  • The causes of the laughable
  • Laughter from the diction
  • Laughter from the incidents
  • Cicero's account of laughter
  • The science of the laughable
  • The embodiment of the laughable in comedy
  • The matter and parts of comedy
  • Old, new, and middle comedy.

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