Aristotle's Poetics
By: Stephen Halliwell ; with a new introduction by the author.
Contributors: Aristotle.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Aristotle.; Poetics -- History -- To 1500.; Aesthetics, Ancient.; Tragedy.
Description: "In this, the fullest attempt in English at a sustained interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics this century, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that the Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, contains a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art, as well as hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general.

He assesses this theory against the background of earlier Greek views on poetry and art, particularly Plato's; and goes further than many previous authors in setting Aristotle's ideas in the wider context of his philosophical system."--BOOK JACKET. "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 work out a secularized understanding of Greek tragedy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-364) and index.
Originally published: London : Duckworth, 1986.