The lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics
By: Walter Watson
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226875088
Subjects: History and criticism; Poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics; title: Aims of the present book; title: Method to be followed; title: Prospective readers; title: Groundwork; title: Aristotle's arts and sciences; title: The organon; title: Preface to the theoretical sciences; title: Mathematics; title: The physical sciences; title: The biological sciences; title: First philosophy; title: The order of the arts and sciences; title: The practical sciences; title: The productive sciences: poetics; title: Rhetoric; title: Scientific rationality as a guiding idea; title: Causes; title: The symbolon argument; title: Causes in the poetics; title: Poetic imitation; title: The analysis of poetic imitation; title: The scope of poetic imitation; title: The evolution of poetic imitation; title: Expectations of Poetics II; title: The epitome of Poetics II; title: Comparison of expectations with the epitome; title: The kinds of poetry; title: The autonomy of poetry; title: Internal and external ends; title: The Aristotelian tradition; title: Historical, educational, and imitative poetry; title: Historical poetry; title: Historical poetry and history; title: Historical poetry and imitative poetry; title: Historical poetry and rhetoric; title: Educational poetry; title: Poetry and philosophy; title: Poetry and education; title: Imitative poetry; title: The end of tragedy; title: The end of tragedy as catharsis; title: The fearful emotions; title: The removal of emotions by emotions; title: The aim of tragedy: symmetry; title: The mother of tragedy: pain; title: Poetry and the practical sciences; title: Poetic and therapeutic catharsis; title: Is catharsis in the poem or in the audience?; title: Is catharsis educative?; title: The practical ends of poetry; title: Comedy; title: The definition of comedy; title: The mother of comedy: laughter; title: The laughable; title: The definition of the laughable; title: Accounts of the laughable; title: The causes of the laughable; title: Laughter from the diction; title: Laughter from the incidents; title: Cicero's account of laughter; title: The science of the laughable; title: The embodiment of the laughable in comedy; title: The matter and parts of comedy; title: Old, new, and middle comedy.