This useful book, an extended study of the Poetics , treats such subjects as Aristotle's general aesthetic views; mimesis; pity, fear, and katharsis; recognition, reversal, and hamartia; tragic misfortune; the nontragic genres; and the historical influence of the work. Aristotle emerges as holding a deeply cognitivist view of poetry and as rejecting the attempt to judge art primarily by external (e.g., moral, political) criteria; his call for the relative autonomy of art, however, neither commits him to an aestheticist view nor prevents him from attributing to art a significant moral dimension. Halliwell's attempts to keep Plato in close view and to keep the Poetics within the context of Aristotle's philosophy as a whole are illuminating.
year: 1997, 1996, 1961
call number/section: 888, 801
subjects: poetry, early works to 1800, aesthetics, early works to 1800
Editions
Aristotle
Dover (1997)
Contains Aristotle's critique of the literature of his time with reference to the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Schools: 0
Aristotle
Penguin Books (1996)
This useful book, an extended study of the Poetics , treats such subjects as Aristotle's general aesthetic views; mimesis; pity, fear, and katharsis; recognition, reversal, and hamartia; tragic misfortune; the nontragic genres; and the historical influence of the work. Aristotle emerges as holding a deeply cognitivist view of poetry and as rejecting the attempt to judge art primarily by external (e.g., moral, political) criteria; his call for the relative autonomy of art, however, neither commits him to an aestheticist view nor prevents him from attributing to art a significant moral dimension. Halliwell's attempts to keep Plato in close view and to keep the Poetics within the context of Aristotle's philosophy as a whole are illuminating.
Schools: 0
Aristotle
Hill and Wang (1961)
Schools: 0
Aristotle
Hill and Wang (1961)
Schools: 0
Aristotle
Hill and Wang (1961)
Schools: 1
Aristotle
Hill and Wang (1961)
Schools: 1