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Belfiore Tragic Pleasures
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Aristotle on Plot and Emotion
E-Book, Englisch, 430 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6257-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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 texts, and those of other ancient writers, call into question the traditional view that katharsis in the Poetics is a homeopathic process--one in which pity and fear affect emotions like themselves. She maintains, instead, that Aristotle considered katharsis to be an allopathic process in which pity and fear purge the soul of shameless, antisocial, and aggressive emotions. While exploring katharsis, Tragic Pleasures analyzes the closely related question of how the Poetics treats the issue of plot structure. In fact, Belfiore's wide-ranging work eventually discusses every central concept in the Poetics, including imitation, pity and fear, necessity and probability, character, and kinship relations.
Originally published in 1992.
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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction 3
Pt. I The Greek Background 7
Ch. 1 The Gorgon at the Feast 9
Gorgon and Gorgoneion 11
Pindar 14
Eumenides 19
A Medicine to Produce Aidos 30
Pt. II Plot: The Soul of Tragedy 41
Ch. 2 Philia and Tragic Imitation 44
Imitation 45
Representation 48
Production: Tragedy Imitates Nature 53
Similarity 63
Theoria 66
Philia 70
Ch. 3 Plot and Character 83
The Plot-Character Distinction 83
Ethos 92
Ethos as Part of Tragedy 94
The Spoudaioi 100
Problems 103
Plot and Ethos in the Greek Tragedies 107
Ch. 4 Necessity, Probability, and Plausibility 111
Necessity and Probability 111
Plausibility, Plot, and Episode 119
Ch. 5 Parts and Wholes 132
The Parts of the Plot 132
Pathos 134
Peripeteia 141
Recognition 153
Good and Bad Plots 160
Poetics 13: Changes and Characters 161
Poetics 14: Pathos and Recognition 170
Pt. III Pity and Fear 177
Ch. 6 Fear, Pity, and Shame in Aristotle's Philosophy 181
Pity, Fear, and Physical Danger 181
Fear of Disgrace: Aidos and Aischune 189
Aristotle and the Greek Tradition 190
Rhetoric 192
Nicomachean Ethics 193
Eudemian Ethics 199
Aidos, Excellence, and Habituation 203
Kataplexis and Ekplexis 216
Summary 222
Ch. 7 Tragic Emotion 226
Pity and Pear in the Poetics 226
Aesthetic and Real-Life Emotion 238
Flight and Pursuit 238
Tragedy and Rhetoric 246
Pt. IV Katharsis 255
Ch. 8 Katharsis and the Critical Tradition 257
The Definition of Tragedy 257
The Homeopathic Prejudice 260
Homeopathy: Theoretical Problems 266
Homeopathy: The Ancient Evidence 278
Ch. 9 Katharsis in Aristotle's Philosophy 291
Overview 292
Physical Katharsis 300
Katharsis of the Katamenia 300
Medical Katharsis 306
Psychic Katharsis 314
Purity 315
Psychic and Physical Excellence 317
Politics 8 320
Iron and Wood 327
The Platonic Elenchus 331
Ch. 10 Tragic Katharsis 337
Glossary 361
Aristotelian Texts Used 363
Bibliography 365
Index of Passages Cited 381
General Index 405
