Poetics

by Aristotle; Heath, Malcolm (Translator)

• ISBN13: 9780140446364
• ISBN10: 0140446362
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: PENGUIN

Summary

New translation of Aristotle's keystone of Western dramatic criticism.

Author Biography

Aristotle was born at Stageira, in the dominion of the kings of Macedonia, in 384 BC. For twenty years he studied at Athens in the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and, some time later, became tutor of the young Alexander the Great. When Alexander succeeded to the throne of Macedonia in 335, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute, the Lyceum, to which his great erudition attracted a large number of scholars. After Alexander's death in 323, anti-Macedonian feeling drove Aristotle out of Athens, and he fled to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. His writings, which were of extraordinary range, profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy, and they are still eagerly studied and debated by philosophers today. Very many of them have survived and among the most famous are the Ethics and the Politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(2)
1. Human culture, poetry and the Poetics	ix	(3)
2. Imitation	xii	(3)
3. Aristotle's history of poetry	xv	(3)
4. The analysis of tragedy	xviii	(4)
5. Plot: the basics	xxii	(6)
6. Reversal and recognition	xxviii	(3)
7. The best kinds of tragic plot	xxxi	(4)
8. The pleasure of tragedy	xxxv	(8)
9. The other parts of tragedy	xliii	(5)
10. Tragedy: miscellaneous aspects	xlviii	(6)
11. Epic	liv	(8)
12. Comedy	lxii	(2)
13. Further reading	lxiv	(2)
14. Reference conventions	lxvi	(2)
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION	lxviii	(4)
SYNOPSIS OF THE POETICS	lxxii
POETICS	1	(48)
NOTES TO THE TRANSLATION	49