Aristotle's Poetics

by Stephen Halliwell

Book Overview

In this, the fullest, sustained interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics available in English, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that the Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art, and it hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general. Assessing this theory against the background of earlier Greek views on poetry and art, particularly Plato's, Halliwell goes further than any previous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226313948
• ISBN13: 9780226313948
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"