Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle's Poetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-68100-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 658 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1246 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

It is hardly possible to read Aristotle’s Poetics today without acknowledging the influence of its reception history: our understanding of Aristotle’s poetical theory has been reshaped in past decades thanks to a reappraisal of long-held prejudices, whose history may be no less fascinating to explore than the text of the Poetics itself. To grasp what the Poetics has to say therefore involves questioning what its many readers have been looking after: What was the Poetics used for? And what are we using it for now? Into which bodies of texts has it been incorporated and put into perspective? How have these uses and contexts influenced past readings of the Poetics, and how do they still inform the way we read it?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mauduit, Christine

Navaud, Guillaume

Renaut, Olivier

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Notes on Editors and Contributors

Introduction

Christine Mauduit, Guillaume Navaud and Olivier Renaut

Part 1: Receptions Areas

1 A Handbook for (Serious) Readers: Applying the Poetics in Ancient Scholarship

Elsa Bouchard

2 Aristotle’s Poetics in Horace’s Epistle to the Pisones: Transmission, Cultural Transfer, and Auctorial Rereading

Bénédicte Delignon

3 The Medieval Manuscripts of Aristotle’s Poetics: What Does the Direct Tradition Teach Us?

Christian Förstel

4 The Arabic Philosophical Reception of Aristotle’s Poetics: Translation, Transmission, and Interpretations. Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes

Frédérique Woerther

5 On the Reception of Aristotle’s Poetics in the Middle Ages – and a Case Study of The Name of the Rose

Costantino Marmo

6 Definitions and Applications of the Aristotelian “Method” in Neo-Latin Poetics

Virginie Leroux

7 Casus Belli: Aristotle’s Poetics and Italian Renaissance Literary Theory and Criticism

Teresa Chevrolet

8 The Poetics in German Philosophy, 1750–1900

François Thomas

Part 2: The Poem, Its Parts and Effects

Section 1: Story, Mythos

9 “What Could Happen”: Early Modern Receptions of Verisimilitude

Enrica Zanin

10 Falsifying Aristotle: Early Modern Theory of the Tragic Ending (Italy, France, Spain)

Enrica Zanin

11 Hamartia through Agnoia: An Embodiment of a Poetic Concept in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Dana L. Munteanu

12 How to Make a Tragic Hero: Early Modern Theories of Hamartia

Giulia Fiore

13 Thinking with the Poetics in the Twenty-First Century: Anagnorisis as Cognitive Event

Terence Cave

Section 2: Poetic Language, Lexis

14 Aristotle’s Poetics 21–22 and Augustan Concepts of Style (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Caecilius of Calacte, Pseudo-Longinus)

Camille Rambourg

15 “But Not Ordinary”: The Afterlife of Aristotle’s Prescription for Poetic Lexis

Michael Silk

Section 3: Visual and Performing Arts

16 Is There an Art of Performance according to Aristotle?

Guillaume Navaud

17 Aristotle’s Poetics for the Use of Painters (1550–1750)

Emmanuelle Hénin

18 Signification, Imitation, Expression: The Idea of a Mimetic Dance and Its Appropriations in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France

Florence d’Artois

Section 4: Catharsis

19 Che cosa è questo purgare? Aristotle’s Tragic Catharsis in Italian Renaissance Literary Theory and Criticism

Teresa Chevrolet

Part 3: Literary Theory: Generic Perspectives

20 From phaulos to “Jesters of God”: Aristotle and Comedy into Perspective

Daniele Guastini

21 Is It Necessary to (Re)read Aristotle’s Poetics to Define the Epic Genre?

Flore Kimmel-Clauzet

22 “Something Aristotle Never Thought Of”: Paradoxical Reflections on the Poetics and the Novel

Stephen Halliwell

23 Aristotelian Mimesis and Narrative Theory: A State of the Art

Antonino Sorci

Epilogue: The Poetics as Object of Fiction

Guillaume Navaud

Über Autor(innen)

Christine Mauduit is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the École normale supérieure (Paris). Her research focuses mainly on Greek Theater, with a specific interest in staging and dramaturgy. She is currently preparing a new French translation and commentary of Aristotle’s Poetics.

Guillaume Navaud (Ph.D./H.D.R. in Comparative Literature) has published two monographs on the relationship between theater and philosophy: Persona: Le théâtre comme métaphore théorique de Socrate à Shakespeare (2011) and Voir le théâtre: Théories aristotéliciennes et pratiques du spectacle (2022).

Olivier Renaut is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Paris-Nanterre University. His research includes works on the history of philosophy of emotions in archaic and classical Greece, notably Platon: La médiation des émotions (2014) and La Rhétorique des passions: Aristote, Rhétorique II.2-11 (2022).

Contributors are: Christine Mauduit, Guillaume Navaud, Olivier Renaut, Elsa Bouchard, Bénédicte Delignon, Christian Förstel, Frédérique Woerther, Costantino Marmo, Virginie Leroux, Teresa Chevrolet, François Thomas, Enrica Zanin, Dana L. Munteanu, Giulia Fiore, Terence Cave, Camille Rambourg, Michael Silk, Emmanuelle Hénin, Florence d’Artois, Daniele Guastini, Flore Kimmel-Clauzet, Stephen Halliwell, and Antonino Sorci.