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Subject(s)

• Poetics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Aristotle—Poetics—Commentaries [Browse]

Related name

• Kenny, Anthony, 1931- [Browse]

Series

Oxford world's classics. [More in this series]

Summary note

Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. This has been the traditional view for centuries. However, recent work is now challenging whether Aristotle focuses on literary theory per se (given that not one poem exists in the treatise) or whether he focuses instead on dramatic musical theory that only has language as one of the elements.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction
• Notes on the Texts and Translations
• Select Bibliography
• A Chronology of Aristotle
• Outline of the Poetics
• From Plato, Republic, Book 2, 3, and 10
• Aristotle, Poetics
• From Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
• From P. B. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
• From D. L. Sayers, 'Aristotle on Detective Fiction'
• A Note on Metre
• Explanatory Notes
• Glossary of Key Terms
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9780199608362
• 0199608369

OCLC

793581555

RCP

H - S

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