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Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art

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Aristotle, Samuel Henry Butcher

Macmillan, 1895 - 384 pages

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TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF THE Poetics	6

ARISTOTLES THEORY OF POETRY AND THE FINE ARTS	107

CHAPTER II	115

This doctrine of aesthetic semblance has important consequences	121

Dancing	129

Architecture not included among the Imitative Arts	138

Fine Art and Useful Art in different ways complete the purposes	144

CHAPTER III	153

How this clarifying process is effected	236

The Katharsis theory connected with the general theory of Poetry	246

CHAPTER VII	253

The law of Unity as applied to the epic and the drama	264

Idealisation of Time and Place	270

CHAPTER VIII	280

blameless goodness	291

Objection examined that Aristotles rule leaves no room for a true	300

Poetry excludes the rule of Chance	169

Conception of a poem as an organism	175

CHAPTER IV	185

The pleasure of the hearer or spectator earns as the end of Art	192

CHAPTER V	200

Yet some of his rules indicate a confusion of moral and aesthetic	211

Yet in the main he decisively rejects the old didactic tendency	221

The musical Katharsis in the Politics	230

Aristotles manner tentative not dogmatic	306

these two factors together con	313

This doctrine has been frequently disputed	321

CHAPTER X	341

Aristotle selects Comedy as an example of the universalising faculty	349

The line however that severs these two kinds of Poetry is less	357

Oriental Art not included in his survey	363

Poetic Universality as shown in the delineation of female character	370

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Bibliographic information

Title	Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art
Authors	Aristotle, Samuel Henry Butcher
Translated by	Samuel Henry Butcher
Edition	4
Publisher	Macmillan, 1895
Original from	the Bavarian State Library
Digitized	24 May 2022
ISBN	0000517283, 9780000517289
Length	384 pages

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