Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition

by Kathy Eden

When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins with Aristotle. In this study Kathy Eden offers a new understanding of this tradition, from its origins in Aristotle's Poetics and De Anima, through its development in the psychological and rhetorical theory of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691638462
• ISBN13: 9780691638461
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"