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When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins with Aristotle. In this study Kathy Eden offers a new understanding of this tradition, from its origins in Aristotle's Poetics and De Anima, through its



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*One. Legal Proof and Tragic Recognition: The Aristotelian Grounds of Discovery, pg. 7*Two. Poetry and Equity: Aristotle's Defense of Fiction, pg. 25*Three. Rhetoric and Psychology: The Aristotelian Foundations of the Poetic Image, pg. 62*Four. Image and Imitation: Aristotle's Contribution to a Christian Literary Theory, pg. 112*Appendix. Hamlet and the Reaches of Aristotelian Tragedy, pg. 176*Index, pg. 185

Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691610337, 978-0691610337
      ISBN10: 0691610339
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins with Aristotle. In this study Kathy Eden offers a new understanding of this tradition, from its origins in Aristotle's Poetics and De Anima, through its



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*One. Legal Proof and Tragic Recognition: The Aristotelian Grounds of Discovery, pg. 7*Two. Poetry and Equity: Aristotle's Defense of Fiction, pg. 25*Three. Rhetoric and Psychology: The Aristotelian Foundations of the Poetic Image, pg. 62*Four. Image and Imitation: Aristotle's Contribution to a Christian Literary Theory, pg. 112*Appendix. Hamlet and the Reaches of Aristotelian Tragedy, pg. 176*Index, pg. 185

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