ISBN10: 9605241323, ISBN13: 9789605241322, [publisher: Herakleion : Crete University Press] Hardcover 206 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Allover very good and clean. - Contents: Prologue -- Introduction -- I. The Function of Poetry -- II. The Audience of Tragedy -- III. The Pleasure of Learning -- IV. The Function and Significance of Music in Tragedy -- V. The Proper Pleasure of Tragedy -- VI. Passion and Reason -- VII. The Ergon of Tragedy: A Recapitulation. - This is a study of the significance and social function of Tragic poetry as understood and explained by Aristotle in his treatise "On the Art of Poetry". Like other works of the philosopher, the "Poetics" is at the same time descriptive and prescriptive, historical and theoretical: it deals with an art created and practised almost exclusively in Athens in the fifth and earlier centuries, although it was adopted by other Greeks in the second part of the fourth century, and later spread, alongside the Greek language, all over the Hellenistic world to become the mark of hellenic culture in the centuries following the death of Aristotle and Alexander the Great. In the "Poetics", Aristotle does not discuss the performance of Drama as such. However, he considers music as a means of imitation - specifically, imitation of ethical qualities - which enhanced the signification of language ...
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In English. Hard cover, 16X24 cm, 208 pp. ISBN: 978-960-524-132-2.This is a study of the significance and social function of tragic poetry as understood and explained by Aristotle in his treatise On the Art of Poetry. Like other works of the philosopher, the Poetics is at the same time descriptive and prescriptive, historical and theoretical: it deals with an art created and practiced almost exclusively in Athens in the fifth and earlier fourth centuries, although it was adopted by other Greeks in the second part of the fourth century, and later spread, alongside the Greek language, all over the Hellenistic world to become the mark of Hellenic culture in the centuries following the death of Aristotle and Alexander the Great. In the Poetics, Aristotle does not discuss the performance of drama as such. However, he considers music as a means of imitation -specifically, imitation of ethical qualities- which enhanced the signification of language in performance. He also puts forward a theory of reception of tragic poetry with regard to what he calls its "proper pleasure", which results from specific types of plot, representing terrible and pitiful events, and brings about in the end a "catharsis of such emotions". This elliptic statement is discussed in a central chapter with reference to the main theories of its interpretation: medical, ethical, and cognitive. A comprehensive new reading is proposed which combines all references to catharsis in Aristotelian texts with his teachi ...