Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics
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This book recalibrates literature’s political role for the 21st century by excavating the deep history of storytelling as a civic agency. From Aristotle to Arendt and from the novella to the video story, short narrative forms hence become... more
Se trata de la introducción de la tesis doctoral (2004). Este trabajo de investigación tiene como origen una "certeza" a acerca del bien que trae consigo el Arte, incluyendo en esta categoría cualquier manifestación artística o expresión... more
The paper studies visual rhetoric as an important part of Hellenistic art in close connection with the poetics of “recognition and changes” developed by Aristotle in terms of plot development in drama. A person of rhetorical culture could... more
The short title of this work: Autobiography, Time, and Narrative in Philosophy and Psychology, expresses the principal topics discussed. The temporal dispersion of an individual's actions throughout life, makes their unification and... more
This Foreword, about robots, written in both poetry as well as prose, introduces the edited collection _Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society_, edited by Steven J. Thompson (IGI Global, 2018). The link on the... more
At the beginning of Book III of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle states that the emotions (pathê) are praised and blamed when they are voluntary (hekousion). However, Aristotle does not elaborate on how an emotion can be voluntary. In this... more
Die Kunst des Lesens ist, das Ganze eines Werkes zu verstehen. Es wird die These vertreten, dass die Poetik in dieser Form vollständig ist und kein Buch fehlt.
THOMAS NAGEL, DER BLICK VON NIRGENDWO
Translated by MICHAEL GEBAUER
Suhrkamp Verlag
stw 2035
Translated by MICHAEL GEBAUER
Suhrkamp Verlag
stw 2035
Since Antiquity, Gorgias has been linked with some figures of style, named after him γοργίεια σχήματα. But ancient testimonies are, on that matter, far less unanimous than modern ones. This paper deals with two main problems : why do some... more
En cualquier caso, nuestro interés se centra en la apertura del sentido, e igual que Monaco, adelantamos que la clasifcación que proponemos es una mera construcción teórica, y que sus fronteras son imprecisas. Partimos de todas formas... more
This is the syllabus for CAS 201, Introduction to Rhetorical Theory, taught to Penn State undergraduates and CAS majors. Approximately 100 students are enrolled in this lecture course.
In questo saggio dedicato alla teoria della comunicazione teatrale, Elena Marino (Università di Trento) riprende in considerazione il rapporto tra testo e rappresentazione, attarversamento un ripensamento della Poetica di Aristotele e... more
De interpretatione / Rhetorik
There is a long history of the uses of the term 'catharsis'. Nowadays the term usually designates a process by which the production of strong emotions by adequate representations (literature, cinema, videogames, etc.) or by real events... more
Arthur Kok (red.) Bewegen en bewogen worden Retorisch handelen in taal, beeld en muziek Volgens Aristoteles is de kern van retorica, als de kunst van het overtuigen, dat de ziel erdoor in beweging wordt gebracht. Daarbij gaat het niet... more
Il faut sauver la tragédie grecque de toute la gnose philosophique et tragique qui l'accable depuis près de trois siècles. Il faut la sauver de notre conception moderne de la littérature et du théâtre. Il faut la sauver de nous-mêmes pour... more
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Captain Ahab is no exception. Forget for a second Ahab's villainous qualities and look instead to the classical tradition. Shakespeare's Macbeth was not a very nice guy. Neither was Milton's Satan.... more
This volume presents a lecture course delivered by Heidegger in Summer Semester 1924 at the University of Marburg in which he examines a variety of Aristotelian texts, elucidating key concepts and exploring how these concepts are rooted... more
The rhetorical device commonly called the seven circumstances enjoys a long history that is rooted in philosophy, but was eventually adopted by rhetoricians in the classical age, by literary commentators in the medieval era, and even... more
Dear readers, I teach a course in Ancient Philosophy--primarily Plato and Aristotle--and have a fairly sturdy set of notes compiled over many years. I'm more than happy to share these with other instructors and scholars.
Com o primoroso prefácio do Prof. Dr. Fernando Brandão dos Santos (Unesp/Araraquara)
Edição Bilíngue
Edição Bilíngue
This article reflects on the notion of good and bad characters in a fictional world. The study is done from a humanistic perspective and considers the poetic proposals of Juan José García-Noblejas (1982) and Paul Ricoeur (1987). The paper... more
Recensione di Aristotele, Retorica. Introduzione, traduzione e commento di S. GASTALDI («Classici» 36), Carocci Editore, Roma 2014, pp. 637, «ΠΗΓΗ / FONS. Revista de estudios sobre la civilización clásica y su recepción» I (2016), pp.... more
The Purpose of Aristotle's Rhetoric and the different approachescombined within this work.
“The Nature and Goals of Rhetoric”, in: G. Anagnostopoulos (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Aristotle, Blackwell, Oxford 2009, 579-595
“The Nature and Goals of Rhetoric”, in: G. Anagnostopoulos (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Aristotle, Blackwell, Oxford 2009, 579-595
In examining the notion of entelechy – defined by Aristotle as the ‘final cause’ in drama – Zornitsa Dimitrova shows that depictions of ‘unsavoury’ content are only justified insofar as they are part of larger networks of aesthetic... more
In the literary tradition covering more than two and a half thousand years, philosophy has been frequently mentioned in close proximity to literature, often as different ways of engaging more or less the same activity. We shall look at... more
Aristotle’s account of emotions in the second book of Rhetoric has long been considered a shallow and contradictory analysis by many scholars, according to whom there is (or should be) no room for the elicitation of passions in the... more
Although current discussions of linguistic relativity tend to concen- trate on obligatory grammatical categories, the original architects of this school of thought, including Boas, Sapir, and Whorf, all argued strongly for the role of... more
The concept of Logos in Plato's and Aristotle's Philosophy
The paper is about Vedic culture of Namboothiri society. Culture is ordinary; every human society has its own shapes, its own meanings, and its own purposes. Cultural studies are interested in lifestyle because the lifestyle is about... more
In these essays Peter Dronke looks at some of the relations between sacred and profane ideas and images, and Christian and pagan motifs, particularly in the early Middle Ages. The first two parts of the book dwell on aspects of (in the... more
Several of the concepts describing the plot in Aristotle's Poetics is ambiguous, and several contradictions are unresolved in current popular interpretations. This is an attempt to solve these problems, by finding an interpretation where... more
亞里士多德《修辭學》理論的焦點是「情緒」觀,意指被勸說一方的心理狀況。本章將討論戰國時期的韓非子和鬼谷子具有與他相似的概念,另外《戰國策》中的策士言論也可見從對方的心理進行勸說的策略。