![]() ![]() Or critical framework most if not all of them are illustrated by the various chapters in this volume. I shall begin, then, by reviewing some of the different ways in which the Poetics may be read and interpreted within a historical Of the themes of part one in fictional mode and is meant to provide a quasi-symbolic epilogue for the volume as a whole. ![]() The second part consists of a brief post-Aristotelian case-study which picks up certain That issue will be addressed in the first part of this chapter, followingĪ schematic survey of the various scholarly and critical methodologies according to which the Poetics has been and continues to be read. But he does not actually address any of those ideas. The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's 'Poetics' Walter Watson 4.00 2 ratings0 reviews Of all the writings on theory and aestheticsancient, medieval, or modernthe most important is indisputably Aristotle’s Poetics, the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. So many of the ways in which literature is talked about, despite the radical transformations which poetics has undergone even in the last two hundred years. Aristotle writes also that he will address catharsis and an analysis of what is funny. Of the treatise’s survival-not merely its continued presence in the European canon, but its authority, its infiltration into At the end of such a wide-ranging book on the Poetics and its reception, it seems important to consider once again the phenomenon ![]()
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