Title Tragic pleasures : Aristotle on plot and emotion / Elizabeth S. Belfiore

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992] ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (429 pages) Series Princeton legacy library Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. THE GREEK BACKGROUND -- PART II. PLOT: THE SOUL OF TRAGEDY -- PART III. PITY AND FEAR -- PART IV. KATHARSIS -- Glossary -- Aristotelian Texts Used -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages Cited -- General Index Summary 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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-380) and indexes Notes In English Print version record Subject Aristotle. Poetics. Aristotle -- Aesthetics Aristotle -- Influence Aristotle -- Aesthetics Aristotle -- influence Aristotle AristÓteles, 384-322 A. C. SUBJECT Poetics (Aristotle) fast Subject Tragedy -- Greek influences Poetics -- History -- To 1500 PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. REFERENCE -- Writing Skills. Aesthetics Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Poetics Tragedy -- Greek influences Poetica (Aristoteles) Emoties. Tragedies. Intriges. Aristotelismo. Tragédia (literatura) -- Grécia antiga. Poesia. Poesia (estudo) -- Grécia antiga. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400862573 1400862574

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