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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle's Poetics
Series: - Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume: 28
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?
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.
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.
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Christine Mauduit, Guillaume Navaud and Olivier Renaut
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-Fārābī, 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
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
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
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
19 Che cosa è questo purgare? Aristotle’s Tragic Catharsis in Italian Renaissance Literary Theory and Criticism
Teresa Chevrolet
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
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-Fārābī, 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
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