The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors List of Common Abbreviations Used Introduction Part 1 Aristotle’s Aesthetics: Poetry and Other Arts – Tradition and Innovation 1 Poetry and Biology: The Anatomy of Tragedy 2 To Kalon and the Experience of Art 3 Aesthetic Emotions 4 Was Phthonos a Comedic Emotion for Aristotle? On the Pleasure and Moral Psychology of Laughter 5 Painting as an Aesthetic Paradigm Part 2 Poetics, Politics, and Ethics: Links and Independence 6 Family Bounds, Political Community, and Tragic Pathos 7 Is there a Poetics in the Politics? 8 Varieties of Characters: the Better, the Worse, and the Like 9 The Ethical Context of Poetics 5: Comic Error and Lack of Self-Control Part 3 Language and Content: Poetic Puzzles in Philosophical Context 10 Taxonomic Flexibility: Metaphor, Genos , and Eidos 11 Poetry and Historia Afterword 12 Reading the Poetics in Context References Index Locorum Index Proper Names