Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion

by Elizabeth S. Belfiore

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691635978
• ISBN13: 9780691635972
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"