Essays on Aristotle's Poetics
By: edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty.
Contributors: Rorty, Amélie.
Series: Princeton paperbacks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
Subjects: Aristotle.; Poetics -- History -- To 1500.; Aesthetics, Ancient.; Tragedy.
Description: This collection of essays locates Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. Philosophers, classicists, and literary critics connect the Poetics to Aristotle's psychology and history, ethics and politics. There are discussions of plot and the unity of action, character and fictional necessity, catharsis, pity and fear, and aesthetic pleasure. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-435).