Tragic Pleasures
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Act of Violence
Aeschylus
Aesthetic Theory
Aidos
Aristotle
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Castor and Pollux
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Catharsis
Consciousness
Cowardice
Critias
Criticism
Disgust
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Erinyes
Ethos
Eudaimonia
Euripides
Euthyphro (prophet)
Explanatory model
Four causes
Good and evil
Gorgoneion
Greek Medicine
Hamartia
Harpy
Homeopathy
Invective
Iphigenia in Tauris
Irony
Kakia (mythology)
Luck
Magna Moralia
Miasma (Greek mythology)
Mimesis
Nicomachean Ethics
Obscenity
Oedipus the King
On the Universe
Pain and pleasure
Paradox
Pathos
Peripeteia
Philosopher
Philosophical analysis
Phratry
Pity
Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetry
Potentiality and actuality
Pride
Probability
Prohairesis
Pythagoreanism
Republic (Plato)
Rhetoric
Samson Agonistes
Satyr play
Sexual Desire (book)
Shame
Sophist
Sophocles
Sophrosyne
Suggestion
The Philosopher
Themistius
Theory
Thought
Tiresias
Tragedy
Tragic hero
W. D. Ross
Product details
- ISBN 9780691607382
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the Aristotelian corpus and in the context of Greek culture in general. In Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Politics, and the ethical, psychological, logical, physical, and biological works, Belfiore finds extremely important but largely neglected sources for understanding the elliptical statements in the Poetics. The author argues that these Aristotelian texts, and those of other ancient writers, call into question the traditional view that katharsis in the Poetics is a homeopathic process--one in which pity and fear affect emotions like themselves. She maintains, instead, that Aristotle considered katharsis to be an allopathic process in which pity and fear purge the soul of shameless, antisocial, and aggressive emotions. While exploring katharsis, Tragic Pleasures analyzes the closely related question of how the Poetics treats the issue of plot structure. In fact, Belfiore's wide-ranging work eventually discusses every central concept in the Poetics, including imitation, pity and fear, necessity and probability, character, and kinship relations. Originally published in 1992.
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