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46The Uses of Laughter in Greek CultureClassical Quarterly 41 (02): 279-. 1991.The proposition that man is the only animal capable of laughter is at least as old as Aristotle . In a strictly physical sense, this is probably false; but it is undoubtedly true that as a psychologically expressive and socially potent means of communication, laughter is a distinctively human phenomenon. Any attempt to study sets of cultural attitudes towards laughter, or the particular types of personal conduct which these attitudes shape and influence, must certainly adopt a wider perspective …Read more
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69Katharsis Elizabeth S. Belfiore: Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion. Pp. xviii + 412. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. £30 (review)The Classical Review 43 (02): 253-254. 1993.
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37The Poetics in the Renaissance (B.) Kappl Die Poetik des Aristoteles in der Dichtungstheorie des Cinquecento. (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 83.) Pp. xii + 351. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. Cased, €88, US$172.80. ISBN: 978-3-11-018952- (review)The Classical Review 58 (2): 616-. 2008.
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21The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern ProblemsPrinceton University Press. 2002.A comprehensive reassessment of the concept of mimesis in the history of ancient Greek aesthetics and philosophy of art, with particular attention to Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, and neoplatonism. There is also a wide-ranging review of arguments pro and contra the idea of artistic mimesis from the Renaissance to modern literar theory. The book challenges standard accounts in numerous respects and builds a new dialectical model with which to make sense of the entire history of mimeti…Read more
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25D. Moraitou: Die Äuβerungen des Aristoteles über Dichter und Dichtung auβerhalb der Poetik.(Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 49.) Pp. x+163. Stuttgart, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1994. Cased, DM 58 (review)The Classical Review 45 (02): 438-. 1995.
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5Part IIn The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems, Princeton University Press. pp. 35-148. 2009.
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5Aristotle's Teleological Theory of Tragedy and Epic (review)The Classical Review 47 (1): 198-199. 1997.
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16The subjection of muthos to logos: Plato's citations of the poetsClassical Quarterly 50 (1): 94-112. 2000.According to Aristotle, Metaphysics 2.3, 995a7–8, there are people who will take seriously the arguments of a speaker only if a poet can be cited as a ‘witness’ in support of them. Aristotle's passing observation sharply reminds us that Greek philosophy had developed within, and was surrounded by, a culture which extensively valued the authority of the poetic word and the poet's ‘voice’ from which it emanated. The currency of ideas, values, and images disseminated through familiarity with poetry…Read more
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14INTRODUCTION: Mimesis and the History of AestheticsIn The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-34. 2009.
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36Cynthia P. Gardiner: The Sophoclean Chorus. A Study of Character and Function. Pp. x + 205. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987. $22.50 (review)The Classical Review 38 (01): 140-. 1988.
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2Plato and Aristotle on the denial of tragedyIn Andrew Laird (ed.), Ancient Literary Criticism, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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14A neglected detail in the "Oedipus Tyrannus": where three roads meetJournal of Hellenic Studies 106 187-190. 1986.‘There is surely more than geography involved in the extraordinary stress laid in the play on the importance of the branching road.’ So writes the latest editor of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, R. D. Dawe, who proceeds to mention the ‘sexual significance … ’ which ‘people tell us’ is to be discerned behind the references to the cross-roads where Oedipus met and killed his father. Dawe finds it difficult to make up his mind whether quasi-Freudian symbolism is properly to be attributed to Sophocles…Read more
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47La psychologie morale de la catharsis: Un essai de reconstructionLes Etudes Philosophiques 67 (4): 499-517. 2003.Résumé — Cet article défend une interprétation de la catharsis qui intègre la psychologie, l’éthique et l’esthétique. Un réexamen attentif de la référence à la catharsis musicopoétique en Politique VIIImontre que, contrairement à l’opinion reçue, la catharsis n’est pas ici séparée de la conception aristotélicienne de l’importance éthique des réactions émotionnelles face aux formes d’art mimétique. Politique VIII donne également une raison de supposer que la catharsis est associée au plaisir, mai…Read more
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51The Poetics P. L. Donini: La tragedia e la vita. Saggi sulla Poetica di Aristotele . (Culture Antiche, Studi e Testi 18.) Pp. 133. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2004. Paper, €14. ISBN: 88-7694-735- (review)The Classical Review 55 (02): 445-. 2005.
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Kann man heute noch etwas anfangen mit Aristoteles?Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (1): 199-199. 2006.
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40Der Mimesisbegriff in der Griechischen Antike: Neubetrachtung eines Umstrittenen Begriffes als Ansatz zu einer Neuen Interpretation der Platonischen Kunstauffassung (review)The Classical Review 45 (1): 176-177. 1995.
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43Review of Martha Husain, Ontology and the Art of Tragedy: An Approach to Aristotle's Poetics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (5). 2002.
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