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5Part IIIIn The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems, Princeton University Press. pp. 261-382. 2009.
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2Note to the ReaderIn The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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31The Uses of Laughter in Greek CultureClassical Quarterly 41 (2): 279-296. 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 t…Read more
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23Greek Laughter: a Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early ChristianityCambridge University Press. 2008.The first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Taking material from various genres and contexts, the book analyses both the theory and the practice of laughter as a revealing expression of Greek values and mentalities. Greek society developed distinctive institutions for the celebration of laughter as a capacity which could bridge the gap between humans and gods; but it also feared laughter for its power to expose individuals and groups to shame and even vi…Read more
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Die Literaturtheorie bei Platon und ihre anthropologische Begründung (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 56 (3). 2002.
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41Politicized Critics Y. L. Too: The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism . Pp. ix + 326. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Cased, £45. ISBN: 0-19-815076- (review)The Classical Review 51 (02): 276-. 2001.
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36Ancient Interpretations of νομαστìκωμδєȋν in AristophanesClassical Quarterly 34 (1): 83-88. 1984.Interest in νομαστìκωμδєȋν began early. Even before the compilation of prosopo-graphical κωμδούμєνο in the second century B.C., Hellenistic study of Aristophanes had devoted attention to the interpretation of personal satire. The surviving scholia contain references to Alexandrian scholars such as Euphronius, Eratosthenes and Callistratus which show that in their commentaries and monographs these men had dealt with issues of νομαστì κωμδєȋν Much material from Hellenistic work on Old Comedy was t…Read more
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21G. F. Held: Aristotle's Teleological Theory of Tragedy and Epic. Pp.x + 162. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1995. Paper, DM 48. ISBN: 3-8253-0300-4The Classical Review 47 (1): 198-199. 1997.
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4815. The Republic’s Two Critiques of PoetryIn Otfried Höffe (ed.), Platon: Politeia, Akademie Verlag. pp. 243-258. 2011.
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16Colloquium 10Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 5 (1): 321-348. 1989.
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26Popular Morality, Philosophical Ethics and the RhetoricIn David J. Furley & Alexander Nehamas (eds.), Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays, Princeton University Press. pp. 211-230. 2015.
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6PrefaceIn The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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48The 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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71Katharsis 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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24The 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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