Aristotle's "Poetics" / Stephen Halliwell ; with a new introduction by the author.
By: Halliwell, Stephen. Prof.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998Description: xiv, 369 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226313948.Other title: Poetics.Subject(s): Aristotle. Poetics | Aesthetics, Ancient | Tragedy | Greek drama (Tragedy)DDC classification: 808.2Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 808.2 HAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0084097 |
Originally published: London : Duckworth, 1986.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-364) and index.
The setting of the Poetics -- Aristotle's aesthetics 1: art and its pleasure -- Aristotle's aesthetics 2: craft, nature and unity in art -- Mimesis -- Action and character -- Tragedy and the emotions -- Fallibility & misfortune: the secularisation of the tragic -- The chorus of tragedy -- Epic, comedy and other genres -- Infulence & status: the Nachleben of the Poetics -- App. 1. The date of the Poetics -- App. 2. The Poetics and Plato -- App. 3. Drama in the theatre: Artistotle on spectacle (opsis) -- Aristotle on language (lexis) -- Interpretations of katharsis.