Essays on Aristotle's Poetics

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This collection of essays locates Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. Philosophers, classicists, and literary critics connect the Poetics to Aristotle's psychology and history, ethics and politics. There are discussions of plot and the unity of action, character and fictional necessity, catharsis, pity and fear, and aesthetic pleasure. -- Back cover.

subjects: Poetics,  History,  Tragedy,  Ancient Aesthetics,  Filosofia grega,  Tragédia (literatura),  Esthétique ancienne,  Tragédie,  Poetics (Aristotle),  Poetica (Aristoteles),  Estética (filosofia),  Poétique,  Poesia,  Aristotle