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001 2011034675
003 DLC
005 20130116083006.0
008 110815s2012 ilu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2011034675
020 $a9780226875088 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
020 $a0226875083 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
040 $aICU/DLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN1040.A753$bW38 2012
082 00 $a808.2$223
100 1 $aWatson, Walter,$d1925-
245 14 $aThe lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics /$cWalter Watson.
264 1 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2012.
300 $axii, 304 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index.
505 0 $aThe lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics -- Aims of the present book -- Method to be followed -- Prospective readers -- Groundwork -- Aristotle's arts and sciences -- The organon -- Preface to the theoretical sciences -- Mathematics -- The physical sciences -- The biological sciences -- First philosophy -- The order of the arts and sciences -- The practical sciences -- The productive sciences : poetics -- Rhetoric -- Scientific rationality as a guiding idea -- Causes -- The symbolon argument -- Causes in the poetics -- Poetic imitation -- The analysis of poetic imitation -- The scope of poetic imitation -- The evolution of poetic imitation -- Expectations of Poetics II -- The epitome of Poetics II -- Comparison of expectations with the epitome -- The kinds of poetry -- The autonomy of poetry -- Internal and external ends -- The Aristotelian tradition -- Historical, educational, and imitative poetry -- Historical poetry -- Historical poetry and history -- Historical poetry and imitative poetry -- Historical poetry and rhetoric -- Educational poetry -- Poetry and philosophy -- Poetry and education -- Imitative poetry -- The end of tragedy -- The end of tragedy as catharsis -- The fearful emotions -- The removal of emotions by emotions -- The aim of tragedy : symmetry -- The mother of tragedy : pain -- Poetry and the practical sciences -- Poetic and therapeutic catharsis -- Is catharsis in the poem or in the audience? -- Is catharsis educative? -- The practical ends of poetry -- Comedy -- The definition of comedy -- The mother of comedy : laughter -- The laughable -- The definition of the laughable -- Accounts of the laughable -- The causes of the laughable -- Laughter from the diction -- Laughter from the incidents -- Cicero's account of laughter -- The science of the laughable -- The embodiment of the laughable in comedy -- The matter and parts of comedy -- Old, new, and middle comedy.
600 00 $aAristotle.$tPoetics.
650 0 $aPoetry$xHistory and criticism.