The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's Poetics

Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Lost Second Book of Aristotle’s Poetics
2. Aims of the Present Book
3. Method to Be Followed
4. Prospective Readers
Part I. Groundwork
Chapter 1. Aristotle’s Arts and Sciences
1. The Organon
2. Preface to the Theoretical Sciences
3. Mathematics
4. The Physical Sciences
5. The Biological Sciences
6. First Philosophy
7. The Order of the Arts and Sciences
8. The Practical Sciences
9. The Productive Sciences: Poetics
10. Rhetoric
11. Scientific Rationality as a Guiding Idea
Chapter 2. Causes
Part II. The Symbolon Argument
Chapter 3. Causes in the Poetics
Chapter 4. Poetic Imitation
1. The Analysis of Poetic Imitation
2. The Scope of Poetic Imitation
3. The Evolution of Poetic Imitation
Chapter 5. Expectations of Poetics II
Chapter 6. The Epitome of Poetics II
Chapter 7. Comparison of the Epitome with our Expectations
Part III. The Kinds of Poetry
Chapter 8. Imitative Poetry
1. The Autonomy of Imitative Poetry
2. The Autonomy of Aristotelian Disciplines
3. Autonomy of Art in the Aristotelian Tradition
Chapter 9. Historical, Educational, and Imitative Poetry
Chapter 10. Historical Poetry
1. History of the Problem
2. Historical Poetry and History
3. Historical Poetry and Imitative Poetry
4. Historical Poetry and Rhetoric
Chapter 11. Educational Poetry
1. Poetry and Philosophy
2. Poetry and Education
Chapter 12. Transition to the Specific ends of Imitative Poetry
Part IV. The end of Tragedy
Chapter 13. The end of Tragedy as Catharsis
Chapter 14. The Fearful Emotions
Chapter 15. The Removal of Emotions by Emotions
Chapter 16. The Aim of Tragedy: Symmetry
Chapter 17. The Mother of Tragedy: Pain
Chapter 18. Poetry and the Practical Sciences
1. Poetic and Therapeutic Catharsis
2. Is Catharsis in the Poem or in the Audience?
3. Is Catharsis Educative?
4. The Practical ends of Poetry
Part V. Comedy
Chapter 19. The Definition of Comedy
Chapter 20. The Mother of Comedy: Laughter
Chapter 21. The Laughable
1. The Definition of the Laughable
2. Accounts of the Laughable
3. The Causes of the Laughable
4. Laughter from the Diction
5. Laughter from the Incidents
6. Cicero’s Account of Laughter
7. The Science of the Laughable
Chapter 22. The Embodiment of the Laughable in Comedy
1. The Matter and Parts of Comedy
2. Old, New, and Middle Comedy
Conclusion
Appendix: The Order and Provenance of the Aristotelian Corpus
Notes
Bibliography
Index