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Book SynopsisIntended to deepening our understanding of the 'Poetics', this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. It includes twenty-one essays that explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the 'Poetics' to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics.
Table of ContentsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsThe Psychology of Aristotelian Tragedy1Aristotle on History and Poetry23Myth and Tragedy33Acting: Drama as the Mimesis of Praxis51Aristotle on Mimesis73One Action97Plot Imitates Action: Aesthetic Evaluation and Moral Realism in Aristotle's Poetics111Outside the Drama: The Limits of Tragedy in Aristotle's Poetics133Ethos and Dianoia Reconsidered155Hamartia and Virtue177Necessity, Chance, and "What Happens for the Most Part" in Aristotle's Poetics197Aristotle's Favorite Tragedies221Pleasure, Understanding, and Emotion in Aristotle's Poetics241Tragedy and Self-sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on Fear and Pity261Pity and Fear in the Rhetoric and the Poetics291Katharsis315From Catharsis to the Aristotelian Mean341Aristotle and Iphigenia359Aristotle on the Pleasure of Comedy379The Poetics for a Practical Critic387Epilogue: The Poetics and its Interpreters409Selected Bibliography425
